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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before leading Metropolitan's self-made Chairman Frederick H. Ecker onto the floor, Bill Douglas reassured the 64,000,000 people in the U. S. with life insurance policies (45% of them with Metropolitan). Said he: "No policyholder need have any concern that any fact brought out in this inquiry will in any way jeopardize the protection which he counts upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Swing Session | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Frederick Ecker saw nothing but good in this vastness. Slight, white-haired and precise at 71, he appeared in a natty pin-stripe suit, only a slight trembling in his hands showing his nervousness. When he went to work as a Metropolitan office-boy at $4 a week in 1883, a single investment of $10,000 was big stuff. In his grating voice, Witness Ecker remarked: "I have seen that grow to where ten million is only in the same proportion that the $10,000 was. . . . I haven't fixed in my mind any place at which it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Swing Session | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...more constructive line? The "Crimson" suggested none. What constructive action, short of enlisting, can Harvard students take to help the cause they believe to be right? The answer is plain: they can only urge their government to act for them-by lifting the embargo. Allan B. Ecker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Under the present plan two men, Langdon P. Marvin Jr. '41 and Allan B. Ecker '41; were in charge of the entire inter-House debating system, arranging schedules, picking, subjects, and supervising the debates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTER-HOUSE DEBATERS TO ADOPT NEW SYSTEM | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

This marks the first time in debating history that professors have participated, according to Langdon P. Marvin '41 and Allan B. Ecker '41, co-managers of House debating. After delivering formal constructive speeches, the faculty men will be cross-examined by student opponents. They will also be required to stand before questioning from the floor in a forum following the debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTER-HOUSE DEBATING GETS STARTED TODAY | 11/2/1938 | See Source »

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