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...replace the late Harvey D. Gibson as president of the Manufacturers Trust Co., directors chose big, white-thatched Henry C. von Elm, 62, longtime banker and chairman of Manufacturers since 1947. Von Elm, who has charmed even the most ornery stockholders by his suave conduct of the bank's annual meetings, was succeeded as chairman by Horace C. Flanigan, 59, who moved up from vice chairman...
Cold Cash. In Yonkers, N.Y., a thief broke into the Elm Superette Market, stole the $8 he found in the cash register and the $263 he found in the refrigerator...
...fall day in 1946, some 300 Indians of the Oto tribe sat themselves down in a solemn, elm-shaded circle near Ponca City, Okla., and received a delegation of white men. As the ceremonies began, Moses Harragara, an elder of the tribe, handed a copy of a manuscript to the boss white man, Princeton Librarian Julian P. Boyd. It was no ordinary document. President Thomas Jefferson had written it and handed it personally to Oto Chief Standing Buffalo in Washington in 1806. Librarian...
...That people pull down their houses, sell their wives and daughters, eat roots and carrion, clay and leaves, is news nobody wonders at. It is the regular thing . . . The poorest people are dependent on willow and elm leaves, elm bark, and the various weeds . . . All the elm trees about many of the villages are stripped of their bark as high as the starving people can manage to get; they would peel them to the top but haven't the strength...
Although Chief Randall cannot understand why so many student never show up for their lost and found articles, there are a few exceptions he can excuse. One of these involves the discovery, early one spring morning, of a warm blanket and four cold bottles of beer under a blooming elm tree in the Yard. Although diligently catalogued in the lost and found file, neither the beer nor the blanket was ever called for. Apparently pride rideth before a call...