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...rising tide of fear provoked runs on such old, conservative institutions as Philadelphia Savings Bank, Germantown Savings Bank. Every institution in the city was calling in its resources as fast as possible. A committee of 22 prominent men published an appeal in the newspapers pleading with the people to have faith in their banks. Among the appeal's signers were: Thomas Sovereign Gates, president of University of Pennsylvania; Dennis Cardinal Dougherty; Samuel Matthews Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive; General William Wallace Atterbury of Pennsylvania R. R.; Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis; Mayor Harry Mackey...
Died. William L. McLean, 79, onetime Pittsburgh newsboy, publisher since 1895 of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin; of old age; in Germantown, Pa. Lest it bias his editorial views he would have no business interest but his paper. He saved big headlines for big news, shunned premiums as circulation boosters, was first to distribute newspapers by automobile...
There is a Rockefeller Family Association. It was founded in 1905, when John Davison Rockefeller's name was large in the news as charitarian and anathema* Then 110 less-known Rockefellers gathered at Germantown, N. Y., laid the foundation. Their purposes: "Fellowship . . . acquaintances . . . assisting children of Rockefeller descendants to obtain an education . . . by making them loans of money . . . without interest." Initiation fee was $2, annual dues $2. More recently they have published the R. F. A. News, an eight-page quarterly which runs gossip on Rockefellers; family genealogy and such information as: "This name [Rockefeller] was chosen after...
...performance (no better, no worse than average) by St. John's students, the tunes were such hits that the first-night audience stayed applauding for 15 minutes after the final curtain. Last week it was decided to repeat Lucille, twice in Brooklyn (April 24 and 25), once in Germantown, Pa. (May 13) where Professor Walsh used to live; once in Atlantic City...
Last week Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania's Republican nominee for governor, lost the vote of William Winston ("Bill") Roper, famed Princeton football coach. Mr. Roper who, away from Princeton, is a Philadelphia councilman from the Germantown district, announced that he would bolt his party to support John M. Hemphill, Democratic nominee, because he was a thoroughgoing Wet. Bolter Roper managed the 1922 primary campaign which won Mr. Pinchot his first term as governor...