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...because of the downpour-the second inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as President of the U. S. was a sentimental historical ducking in five acts Act I took place in mid-morning at St. John's Episcopal Church across Lafayette Square from the White House. There the Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School, held services just as he did four years ago for his onetime student Franklin, for Franklin's mother, wife, sons, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, and miscellaneous kin* and friends. Act II lasted for 40 minutes, from the time Franklin Roosevelt entered the robing room...
While J. P. Morgan & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. skimmed the cream of railroad financing, Goldman Sachs concentrated on industrials, which to a large extent meant selling stock, not bonds. Its clients include Woolworth, Goodrich, General Foods, Continental Can, The Lambert Co., Pillsbury Flour, United Biscuit, Phoenix Hosiery, Endicott Johnson, National Dairy Products...
Thomas H. Quinn '36, of West Warwick, R. I., is winner of the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize awarded annually by the deans of Harvard College and the Harvard Law School to an outstanding Senior in Harvard College proposing to enter, the Harvard Law School...
...York Yale Club last week. Despite that sign of health the brother of the late William Howard Taft was announcing his retirement within the year as headmaster of Taft School. In a profession studded with Grand Old Men. Headmaster Taft at 73 shares with Groton's Endicott Peabody (TIME, Oct. 28) the distinction of being the grandest of them all. A distinguished, kindly man,'"Brother Horace" has the Taft good humor, the Taft chuckle, the flowing Taft mustache. But because he is six feet six and spare, he looks less like his rotund brother than like that other...
Just how effective Presidential suasion may be was illustrated by a little anecdote that Franklin Roosevelt told his press conference. On Sept. 20 George F. Johnson, chairman of Endicott Johnson Corp. (shoes), lunching at Hyde Park, sounded out the President on whether his company should accept a large order for shoes from the Italian Government. Were they ladies' slippers? the President asked ironically. No, Mr. Johnson replied, they might be used for army boots. Thereupon the President advised Shoeman Johnson not to accept the order...