Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Principal transaction of the meeting was to elect a new president, William Gibson Carey Jr. (head of Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., hardware), who in personal contacts is a kind of fun-loving Tom Rover. Drafted because he is "a victim of his friends" where Civic Virtue is concerned, President Carey explained that to him the Capitalist is "The Forgotten Man, 1939." He is committed to winning "commonsense legislation...
...knowledge of finance, moved Wall Street to try to head off his appointment, may move some Senators to oppose the confirmation of his appointment. The fact that he was named to succeed Chairman Bill Douglas on SEC does not mean that he will automatically become its chairman. Legally, SEC elects its own chairman. How much opposition to his confirmation develops may depend on whether assurance is quietly given to the Senate that SEC will elect as chairman some one else, such as Commissioner Jerome Frank...
When Bishop Spellman returned to Boston, near which he was born and, as a grocer's boy, played sandlot baseball, observers predicted for him an archbishopric and a Cardinal's red hat. Last week New York's genial Archbishop-elect, about to turn 50, had fulfilled one prediction, seemed sure to fulfill the other...
Rumor in Manhattan last week was that, along with Father Williams, the other Cowley Fathers would leave St. Mary the Virgin, presumably taking the vimpa with them. In Boston next week Father Williams is to be an attending presbyter at the consecration of his predecessor, Bishop-elect Burton. At this service no vimpas will be used: the consecrator will be the Presiding Bishop of the Church, Henry' St. George Tucker, who has never worn a cope, much less a mitre...
However, according to students now in the course, considerable restrictions are placed upon courses which they may elect, with the result that students have been forced into courses of a purely business nature. One student found it impossible to take Legal Aspects of Business, a course which would contribute considerably to a Law School education...