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Robert Bower Eckles '32, of York, Nebraska, was elected president of the Harvard Debating Council at the annual election of officers in the Faculty Room of the Harvard Union last night. Philip Henry Cohen '32, of Fort Hancock, New, Jersey, was selected vice-president; and George Frederick Oest '33, of Omaha, Nebraska was chosen secretary. These men succeed P.C. Reardon '32, A.B. Rood '32, and F.C. Flechter '32, who served in the same respective capacities last year. All three of the new officers are active in other undergraduate organizations, Eckles also being a member of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
Other early recipients of the degree of LL.D. were: 1784, the Marquis de Lafayette: 1787, Thomas Jefferson; 1790, John-Jay; 1792, Samuel Adams of the class of 1740, Alexander Hamilton, and John Hancock of the class of 1754--1793, Samuel Philips of the class of 1771, the founder of Phillips Academy, Andover: 1803, Edward Jenner, the discoverer of Smallpox vaccine; 1806, John Marshall. Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court; 1810, Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, and Samuel Stanhope Smith, president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton); 1814, Harrison Gray Otis of the class...
...winner of the New York Times Current Events Contest, it was announced yesterday by Joseph Wright, Superintendent of the Library for Municipal Research, who was in charge of the examination at Harvard. Jerome Sidney Newland '32, of New York City and Philip Henry Cohen '32, of Fort Hancock, New Jersey, are the second and third prize winners...
Investments of life insurance companies will be $18,900,000,000 at the end of the year, said Walton Lee Crocker, president of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Boston. This will be a gain of $1,418,000,000 over last year, a 100% gain over 1923. Real estate mortgage investments amount to 40.3% of the total; stocks & bonds to 37.6%, foreign and U. S. government and municipal bonds to 7%.-Railroad securities will constitute 17% of holdings, against 35% in 1906. Public utility holdings will be up 16.2% for this year, against a gain of 9.4% last...
...York, Dry Congressman Dempsey was defeated by a Wet in the 40th District. Two Wets were nominated in the 25th District when Dry Representative Wainwright retired. Representative Fish shifted to beer while Representative Hancock (35th District) and Cooke (41st District) changed from Dry to Wet to save their political skins in the primary. Gain...