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...setting records, Schenley's sales were at the lowest level ($450 million) since 1944. And this year, though all distillers are in a slump, Schenley is in a much deeper one. Recently its sales have been off 55% v. a drop of only 28% to 36% for Seagrams, Hiram Walker and National Distillers. Schenley's troubles and its vast expansion have caused the company to borrow $150 million, although its assets are greater than any other U.S. liquor company...
...Mount Holyoke's Cornelia C. Coulter, 66, professor of classics and expert in the field of Renaissance Latin. Her new assignment: Hiram (Ohio) College...
Fall crew showed the greatest improvement over the previous year and sophomores Geoffrey Platt and Johnny gates made the first boat, while Barrette scudder stroked the third. Four 1927 freshman regulars--Richard Thomas, Joseph MacKinnon, Hiram Gans, and Walter Tresvett--made the soccer team which had a four win, four loss season. Individually, John S. Malick placed first in the 100 yard dash and the 440 in the University fall track meet...
Assistant publisher of his father's Oakland daily Tribune and an ex-state senator, Knowland was appointed to the Senate by Warren in August 1945, while he was still serving as an Army major in Paris. Named to the seat vacated by Hiram Johnson's death, he was elected to a full term in 1946. He has long advocated a strong U.S. policy in the Far East, including more aid to Chiang and more force against the Communists. This, and his charge that the State Department's Far Eastern policy was "bankrupt," caused his enemies in Washington...
...Eisenhower, Mrs. Hiram Houghton of Red Oak, Iowa, retiring president of the 10.7 million-member General Federation of Women's Clubs, "because he stands for thrift, sagacity, individual enterprise and those things that we believe in most dearly as true Americans...