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From the Class of 1936: Sidney Stuart Alexander, Edward Lewis Bassett, Simon Michael Bessie, George Small Franklin, Jr., Charles Allen Haskins, John Bamber Hickam, Robert Charles Hunter, Harold Burton Jaffee, Leonard Wallenstein, Jarcho, Millard Lucien Kaplan, Alfred Pope, Robert Hey Rawson, Theodor Herzl Rome, Robert Dayton Sall, Herman Elbert Schroeder, Emmanuel Sliver, Robert Morton Terrall, Richard Edward Voland, Harold Phelan Welch...
...officers have as yet been elected for the club, but Elijah Swift, Jr. 2G., Daniel S. Eppelsheimer, gr. E.S., and Elbert P. Little '34, the organizers of the club will act as an executive committee...
James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor, Comptroller of the Currency, went before the bankers and told them, the names of the two directors who with himself will administer the deposit guarantee law: Walter Joseph Cummings, executive assistant in the Treasury, close friend of William Hartman Woodin, and Elbert G. Bennett, banker of Ogden, Utah. These announcements the polite bankers applauded. And they listened politely when Comptroller O'Connor told them: ''Every depositor has a right to his money. This law makes the theory a fact. It will banish fear in every banker's mind of runs...
...half hours. That is to say he beat the record.") He has a prodigious memory, and this year won honorable mention from the Pulitzer Prize committee for an obituary of Sir Ronald Ross, written chiefly from memory. He reads voraciously, likes to quote Emerson, says he thinks Elbert Hubbard was the best rewrite man of his age. On occasion Editor Bingay can be exceedingly sharp-tongued. Reporters under him testify that "he can take the hide off anyone in about seven sentences." When excited he used to spit on the floor but has broken himself of the habit...
...later, when Sullivan was world's champion, Muldoon trained him at his farm in Belfast, N. Y., curbed his drinking with a baseball bat. In 1900 Muldoon opened his famed Hygienic Institute at Purchase, N Y., where many a celebrity, including Theodore Roosevelt, Chauncey Depew, Elihu Root and Elbert Hubbard, went to be reconditioned. His chief gifts to athletics were the medicine ball and the shower bath. He and Gene Tunney annually exchanged telegrams on their mutual birthday...