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...most liberal seagoing subsidies in U. S. history, including payments to shipbuilders of as much as 50% of construction costs and payments to ship-operators sufficient to put them on an equal basis with foreign competitors (TIME, July 13). To administer these important projects, the Act provided for a five-man Maritime Commission, gave it some $200,000,000 cash and powers over shipping similar to the Interstate Commerce Commission's powers over rail roads. Last week, when President Roosevelt "temporarily" appointed three* of the five Commissioners, their major duty was to make the U. S. Merchant Marine...
Active head of M.I.T. is Merrill Griswold, a 50-year-old Boston lawyer who married a Lowell. There are two other trustees and a five-man advisory board, heavily Harvard, predominantly Bostonian. Leading the board's list is Charles Francis Adams, great-great-great-grandson of the second President of the U. S.. Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Navy and reputedly the richest member of his ancient family. Another is Roger Amory. the philosophical president of Consolidated Investment Trust. He lists his hobbies as books, walks and lying in the sun. wrote for his 25th Harvard...
...Affiliated Broadcasting Co., his first step over the sill of big business since his utilities empire crashed in 1932. Shortly after the first of the year, Insull friends put up $200,000 for A. B. C., gave the old utilitarian the presidency, let him pick three members of the five-man board. Profits of the chain (21 stations in the Midwest) stayed out of sight but the bottom of the original pot did not. Few weeks ago after Vice President Quisenberry shot away President Insull's control of the board, it began to look as if the old man...
...three and a half scoreless periods the Crimson kept the ball well into enemy territory. But the unorthodox eleven man defense which the visitors presented prevented any material success of the five-man attack...
...school. He spent brief periods as a police judge in Birmingham, as a county prosecutor, as a captain of the 81st Field Artillery. In 1926 the late Oscar W. Underwood, disgusted with Alabama politics, announced his retirement from the Senate. Unknown Hugo Black was the dark horse in a five-man primary for the Underwood seat. Without any prominent support, he put on a wrinkled suit, climbed into a Model-T Ford, stumped the State, sleeping with any farmer who would put him up, speaking at every crossroads store, saying the right words to win Ku Klux Klan support. That...