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...advance and nursed as diligently by their beneficiaries as prep-school football stars, are equally devoid of surprise. Last week officials of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N. Y., contemplating news of a legacy whose eventual value might reach $6,000,000, professed utter amazement. Said President William Otis Hotchkiss: "All I know about it is what I read in the papers...
What President Hotchkiss had read was the routine account of a transfer tax appraisal of the estate of Mrs. William B. Cogswell, widow of a rich Rensselaer alumnus who pioneered the Belgian Solvay chemical processes (soda products, coke) in the U. S., helped form giant Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. in 1920. Mr. Cogswell died in 1921, his wife last year in Manhattan. To her sisters, the middle-aged Misses Elizabeth and Florence Browning of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, the appraisal revealed that Mrs. Cogswell left a net estate of $4,266,548, plus two trust funds, each consisting...
...Angeles to teach "The Art of Acting." Biggest celebrity beat was scored by small Mills College in Oakland, Calif. To summer students Mills offered "Civilization, Literature and Politics," conducted in French by Novelist Jules Remains, "Verse Writing" by Poet William Rose Benét, tennis instruction by Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, four-time U. S. Women's Singles champion...
President William Otis Hotchkiss of Michigan College of Mining & Technology L.L.D...
Workers told off pickets to guard the plants against sabotage, were fed by wives and Communist committees. This superb idea spread fast. Hotchkiss (automobiles, machine guns), Amiot (airplanes) and Hispano (airplane engines, armaments, munitions) granted the demands. Some munitions manufacturers hurriedly shooed their men out of the plants on forced vacations...