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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harper Woodward '31, Secretary to President Conant, has resigned his position effective September 1, to practice law in New York City. Woodward, who succeeded Vernon Munroe, Jr., a year ago, will join the firm of Barry, Wainwright, Thacher, and Symmers. The appointment of his successor will be announced next week after the meeting of the Corporation...
...exchanging goodwill visits for a year. Last fortnight Brazil's Getulio Dornelles Vargas called on Argentina's Agustin P. Justo (TIME, June 3). Last week Vargas went on to Montevideo, with his wife & daughter, to visit Uruguay's smart, stolid President Gabriel Terra, who runs a firm dictatorship over the most up-&-coming people in South America...
...Reconstruction days after the Civil War good housewives bought "Pratt's Astral Oil," a clear-burning, high-grade brand of kerosene refined on Long Island by two bright young men named Charles Pratt and H. H. Rogers. John Rockefeller bought out their firm in 1874, taking the two partners with him. At that time Herbert Lee Pratt was a three-year-old in the oilman's large family. When he was 23 and his father had grown exceedingly rich as a Rockefeller henchman. Son Herbert was graduated from Amherst in the Class of 1895 along with Dwight Morrow...
...yacht. Disgruntled Mr. Rand spent the night in jail. Arraigned next morning, he protested that up to 1932 he paid his taxes in New York. Furthermore, he could pay no Massachusetts taxes even if he owed them. Since 1925, when he merged Rand Co. with his son's rival firm, he had lost part of his fortune in the stockmarket, given another part to his children. Hounded by creditors, he finally turned all his assets and liabilities over to his son. A director of Remington Rand and several other companies, he owned no stock of value, had but one asset...
Middlesex County authorities promptly turned to Howard Lang. Bushy-browed Mr. Lang offered little light. His quarrel with Bowen Tufts dated back a dozen years to a personal feud arising out of a reorganization of Mr. Lang's real estate firm. He was questioned closely, absolved of all blame. Next Attorney General Paul A. Dever, a young, ambitious Irishman eight years out of law school, plunged into the case side by side with the Securities Division of the Massachusetts Public Utilities Commission. Slowly, day by day, they began unraveling the business affairs of Bowen Tufts, so complicated that...