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Last week there was given to Ford's opponents a new big argument. It is known as the Hooker-White-Atterbury bid. Elon H. Hooker, owner of an electro-chemical company at Niagara Falls, built two of the Muscle Shoals units during the War. J. G. White is a great chemical manufacturer. Atterbury, famed "General," is operative head of the Pennsylvania Railroad. They aggregate no mean amount of prestige. Their offer is to function as an operating company for the Government in the manufacture of a metallic magnesium aluminum alloy, which has the strength of mild steel, would revolutionize railway...
...letter read to the same gathering, Elon H. Hooker, President of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, warned of the coming dangers of German low-cost competition. Colonel J. I. McMullen, Judge Advocate of the War Department, for the same reasons urged the necessity of protecting the dye industry through a higher tariff, and also a restriction of our patent laws similar to those abroad, whereby the holder of a patent here must manufacture only in this country...
...Elon S. Borton, National Secretary, and Mr. Mark R. Shaw, Field Secretary, of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association will speak at the meeting of the Harvard Prohibition League in Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7.30 o'clock. These men are engaged in organizing campaigns for prohibition in the colleges of the country and a particular effort will be made to interest the members of the University in the work, coming as it does at a time when several petitions asking for class decisions on serving beer at the smokers are being circulated. All members of the University are urged...
...Mark R. Shaw, Field Secretary, and Mr. Elon S. Borton, National Secretary, of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association of the United States will speak at the meeting of the University Prohibition League in Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 7.30. They have been engaged in organizing definite campaigns for prohibition among college men, and Mr. Borton has visited 250 American colleges in this campaign. Mr. Shaw has reached more than 65 of the colleges of New England. All members of the University are invited to attend...