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Phenomenal in 1938 was Robert Alphonso Taft's Ohio Senatorial victory over promising New Dealer Robert Johns Bulkley. Mr. Taft was phenomenally dull, phenomenally serious, phenomenally popular at the polls. Prissy, solemn, ponderous Mr. Taft was expected to fade away into the obscure routine of a freshman Senator. He...
Al Capone, freed after seven years and six months in California's Alcatraz and Terminal Island Prisons, was whisked across the continent by Federal Agents to Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital in order to be given malaria. Object: a fever cure of his paresis under the care of...
Died. Dr. Frank Johnson Goodnow, 80, learned, rugged president-emeritus of Johns Hopkins University (president 1914-29), after long illness; in Baltimore, Md. For two years Dr. Goodnow was legal and constitutional adviser to the first government of the Chinese Republic.
Its new award: the Vermilye Medal, named for Donor William Moorhead Vermilye, vice president of Manhattan's National City Bank. The first recipient: Lewis Herold Brown, handsome (see cut) young (45) president of big Johns-Manville Corp. (building materials, etc.). Until the presentation ceremony two weeks hence, the Institute...
Made head of a feast-or-famine business in 1929, Lewis Brown pulled it through the century's worst depression intact (only deficit: $2,829,000 in 1932). The New Deal's Monopoly Committee regarded J.M. under him as an example of enlightened management in Big Business; he...