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Members of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects held a quiet meeting last week to elect a successor to President Ralph Walker of Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker. There would have been nothing newsworthy about the affair but for the name of the new president: Hobart Brown Upjohn...
...Upjohn was a co-founder (1857) and first president of the American Institute of Architects. By the time A. I. A. had grown large enough to become a national institution, his Son Richard Michell Upjohn was twice elected president of the New York Chapter, a title to which Grandson Hobart Upjohn succeeded last week...
...Hobart Upjohn, taking heed from his brothers, for years refused to be an architect, practiced as a civil engineer. In 1902 a letter intended for his father reached him, asking him to design a church for Watertown, N. Y. Before Hobart Upjohn could explain the mistake, he found himself awarded the contract. Watertown's vestry was quite satisfied when the church was finished, and in 1905 Hobart Upjohn found himself head of the House of Upjohn...
...what in the past the cinema would have considered dangerously subversive propaganda. By no means either a Communistic tract or a libelous indictment of Standard Oil Co., it is nonetheless a thoroughly embittered picture of a U. S. corporation and its technique in foreign expansion. Adapted from Alice Tisdale Hobart's best-selling novel, its hero is a U. S. oil salesman in China, and its message, only mildly impaired by a self-contradictory sequence timidly tacked to the story's end, is one that might make an attendant in a highway service station think twice before...
...Louis Wiley shone. He was everywhere. At civic and social functions he was the Times. He represented the institution ably, and he loved it. He was a mainstay of the New York Advertising Club, never seemed to weary of speaking at luncheon clubs and banquets. Did the students of Hobart College, or the Advertisers' Club of Davenport, Iowa, or the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers, or the inmates of Welfare Island prison want Mr. Wiley to talk to them? Mr. Wiley would talk. Publicity loving, he had copies of his speeches sent to all the Press. He often...