Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoffman then delivered the poem; selections by the Glee Club were followed...
Chairman of the C.E.D. is quiet, persuasive Paul Gray Hoffman, president of Studebaker Corp., who is not only a master salesman but a student of U.S. political economy. Chairman of its important research committee is Ralph E. Flanders, president of Jones & Lamson Machine Co., flanked by Beardsley ("Pay-as-you-go") Ruml, chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and University of Chicago's top-flight economist, Theodore Otte Yntema (pronounced Ine temma), as fulltime director...
...exercises open by ticket to all, will begin at 2:30 with a prayer by Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Divinity School. John W. Sullivan '43 will deliver the Class Oration, and John L. Hoffman '43 will give the Class Poem. Selections by the Glee Club are planned as the next number on the program, to be followed by the Ivy Oration, presented by Joseph C. Scott '43. The assembled students are to join in singing the Ode, written by Eric Larrabee '43, with George R. Clay '43 the Chorister, conducting to close the afternoon...
...this question the ranks of business began dividing. One school looked back-back to the demobilization of 1918, back to the '20s, back to the labor-government-industry imbroglio of the '30s. The other school, the school typified by Prince of General Electric, by Hoffman of Studebaker, and by Kaiser, looked forward to the creation of post-war jobs and employment ; to a better cooperation with government; to an implementing of Franklin Roosevelt's Atlantic Charter and a system of world security. The issues would not be decided until 1944. But 1943 was not too soon...
...same time F. Barton Harvey '43, third marshal of the class and at present in charge of the ceremonies, announced the appointment of 25 Juniors as ushers. In addition, he disclosed that it was now definite that John L. Hoffman "43 would act as Poet and that Joseph C. Scott '43 would deliver the Ivy Oration...