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Another nominating speech by another Scott?Charles F. of lola, Kan.?put the name of Charles Curtis before the convention in renomination for the Vice-Presidency. Vice President Curtis won, 634 ¼-to-401½. Only in 1912, when Theo dore Roosevelt split the Party and paved the way to a Democratic victory, had the G. O. P. renominated its previous ticket. It would not have occurred on the first ballot had not the Pennsylvania faction switched its 75 votes from General Ed ward Martin, State chairman, to Curtis at the last moment...
...Atlantic Seaboard. With the addition. Commander-Larabee has 14 flour mills with a 40,000-bbl. capacity and storage space for 30,000,000 bu. Commander-Larabee plans to double the Sherman mill's storage capacity and is building a 1,000,000-bu. terminal at Wellington, Kan. It also plans a new 2,500-bu. flour mill at either Sherman or Fort Worth. Largest company in the U. S. is General Mills with an 81,850-bbl. daily capacity; second is Pillsbury Flour with...
Commander-Larabee was formed in 1926 by a merger of the Larabee mills of Kansas with the Commander group in Minneapolis. The Larabee mills were started by Fred and Frank Larabee in their home town of Hutchinson, Kan. The Commander mills were originated by Banker Benjamin Belcher Sheffield, now head of Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Association, W. H. Sudduth, a farmer, and W. D. Gregory. Messrs. Sheffield & Sudduth sold out to a group which included Shreve McLaren Archer, 40, head of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., one of the biggest linseed crushing companies in the World. In 1930 his company bought control...
Shattuck Scholarships: Peter Fishman, Dorchester, Mass.; Walter Leighton, Jr., Evanston, Ill.; G. C. LeRoy, Auburndale, Mass.; C. A. Niemeyer, Independence, Kan.; R. E. K. Rourke, Brockville, Ont.; F. E. Ulrich, Schenectady, N. Y.; J. E. Whitesell, Eagle Rock, Virginia; Thayer Scholarships: A. I. Abell, Eldorado, Ill.; J. A. Jenkins, Oak Park, Ill.; A. G. Marshak, Woodhaven, L. I., N. Y.; J. C. Miller, Taooma, Wash.; L. A. Wilford, Cambridge, Mass.; Gorham Thomas Scholarship: C. B. Moke, Youngstown, Ohio; Townsend Scholarships: J. M. Pratt, Pittsburgh, Pa.; J. F. A. Rick, Jamestown, N. Y.; W. S. Weedon, University, Va.; Nathan Weiner, Roxbury...
...Adopted (176-to-129) a resolution by Missouri's Shannon to investigate "Government competition with private enterprise" in the form of sales of merchandise at Army posts and elsewhere; viewed as exhibits a pair of women's pink silk pyjamas purchased at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. and an array of gin, rum. corn and rye flavoring extracts bought at a Government store in Washington...