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Wheels for Pershing. Making such profits is relatively new to Budd. The late Edward Gowen Budd, who founded the company* 38 years ago, was often willing to toss good profits overboard in order to try a new technological twist. He built the first all-steel auto body for Charles Nash (then president of G.M.) in 1912, made the first U.S. all-steel auto wheel to fit General John J. Pershing's staff cars during World War I. The manufacturing company expanded with the auto industry to the point where it grossed $24.7 million in 1925, but it never made...
William E. W. Gowen '51, is expected to express specific complaints against this year's group that led him to help lead a referendum movement for complete elimination of the Council...
...Gowen recently took over leadership of the abolition movement from Merrill O. Young '51, and at the same time stated that he will allow the Council a certain length of time to revise itself, then if it doesn't do so satisfactory, he will start a new petition for abolition...
Yesterday Council President Edward F. Burke '50 and "lenient abolitionist" William E. W. Gowen '51 made a pre-election statement, agreeing that "the present upsurge of interest in the Student Council will have beneficial results...
...Gowen stated last night that he was not an abolitionist, and disclaimed all connection with the Interim Committee. What he aims at, the group spokesman said, is reform, with abolition as a last resori...