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While cinema producers, distributors and exhibitors reported their accomplishments and plans (TIME, March 28) Elmer Pearson, vice president and general manager of Pathe Exchange Inc., conducted quiet pourparlers with President Elisha Walker of Blair & Co. (investment bankers who control the Pathe Co.); with General Manager John J. Murdock of B. F. Keith Corp. (vaudeville theatres), President Mark E. Heiman of Orpheum Circuit Inc. (vaudeville theatres) and Cinema Director Cecil B. De Mille (whose productions Producers Distributing Corp. have handled...
...Walter Elisha Hook '30 of Chicago, Illinois, has been appointed Freshman Squash Racquets Manager after a competition of nine weeks...
...Merriman, "author of stately volumes on the Spanish Empire which few have read but all admire. Great Catholic-baiter. A man of means, whether his own or his wife's our sources do not inform us." But, questioned the scurrilous one, if Dr. Merriman were the Elisha of the University, why did Dr. Lowell delay resigning...
...name of the new corporation is derived from those of Professor Elisha Gray and Enos M. Barton, who formed a partnership in 1869 to manufacture electrical equipment. Gray was a professor in Oberlin College, and his inventions composed the partnership's chief assets. Barton was a telegraph operator, who put $400 into the business by mortgaging his mother's house. In 1872 the original partnership of Gray & Barton reorganized as the Western Electric Manufacturing Co. In 1881 this was re-christened the Western Electric Co. In 1882 the concern began manufacturing telephone equipment for the Bell system...
...before this date in 1779 Elisha Parmele, a Connecticut Yankee who had become one of the fifty original members returned to the North taking with him a charter for Harvard, voted on the third anniversary of the founding of the Society, and another for Yale, granted five days later...