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...John Isaac Mange is chairman and president of Associated Gas & Electric Co.. giant public utility system that has more security holders (190,000) than any utility except A. T. & T. and Cities Service. But the mainspring of the company is Howard Colwell Hopson, vice president and treasurer...
Several men have also been appointed to the various editorships by the President. Richard G. Pettingill 2L, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been appointed Note Editor. Isaac N. P. Stokes 1I, 2l, of Washington, D. C., has been selected to fill the position of Case Editor. Charles R. Kaufmann 2L, of Chicago, Illinois, will be Legislation Editor and William B. Lockhart 2l, of Des Moines, Iowa, Book Review Editor...
...pictures of Atlantic liners, Nantucket whalers, Mississippi steamboats, British, French, Dutch ships of the line-but he also specializes. Pride of his portfolios is a special collection of every steamboat that ever plied the Long Island Sound. He has a model of the Isaac Newton, first steamer on the Hudson to have three tiers of staterooms. He has not one but several lithographs of the Atlantic, first Sound steamer to use illuminating gas. One thing he lacked: a picture of the Glen Cove, first Sound steamer to be equipped with a steam calliope for the entertainment of the passengers...
Oldest Philadelphia department store, older than Wanamaker's is Strawbridge & Clothier, established in 1868 by Quaker Justus C. Strawbridge, who was joined by Quaker Isaac H. Clothier. Into the big Clothier family, in 1885. was born Robert Clarkson Clothier. His father, brother of the founder, was by this time become Presbyterian and rich. Young Bob went to Princeton, where he became editor-in-chief of the Daily Princetonian and a member of the senior council. A good scholar though no Phi Beta Kappa man, he showed no interest in his family's mercantile tradition. "Bob" Clothier became employment...
...thorough grounding in the art of tieing flies, in the maintenance of tackle, and in fly casting from the faculty of arts and sciences. Such an apparently logical deduction is wrong, for the prospective anglers are to be taught by the department of physical education. The delicate art of Isaac Walton becomes productive material in the hands of Lionel Strongfort and Earl Liederman. Perhaps next month's issue of "Breezy Stories" will carry in the bold type of a full page advertisement, "Become a man in 7 days with my new fishing course...