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...order to stimulate greater student participation in blood donations to the Red Cross, the war services committees in both Adams and Lowell House are conducting door-to-door drives. A keen rivalry is brewing to determine the greater contributor. In Eliot House a drive to enlist Navy blood donations will begin sometime this week, although strict physical requirements have been set up by the Navy doctors...
...corporations) have only the haziest ideas about the functioning of the board or of the operating officers, and generally even those hazy ideas are strong. The principal duty of the stock-holders . . . is to elect to the board of directors men (who are) intelligent, honest and (who have) a keen sense of their responsibility as trustees for the stock-holders and for the public policy of the company," Swope pointed...
...third son of a Baptist minister in Chicopee Falls, Mass. He was descended from a distinguished line of New England pirates and preachers. His father was "so fat he could not lean over"; his mother was "a piece of frail Dresden china." Edward, slight, studious, with keen, greyish eyes and a musical voice, failed his physical examination for West Point. He studied briefly in Germany and at Union College, read law by himself and set up as a lawyer. In two years he had one case. At 21 he got a job writing editorials for the New York Evening Post...
Competition in both running events is expected to be keen, especially in the one mile relay from NYU, which turned in a winning 3:22 effort at the Millrose Games last week...
...Keen, young (45) Engineer Heller, who showed the U.S. Steel Corp. seven years ago how to modernize its marketing methods, examined every part of the cumbersome Congress mechanism, saw how it worked, and drew his own conclusions. He wrapped up suggestions made in other studies, finally saw his report adopted unanimously by the association's business, labor and agriculture committees. Gist of the recommendations...