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Said Joe, expelling his long-held breath: "I'm tickled to death it's all over. . . ." Next day, grinning, he started another string that had reached a count of three by week's end-despite the cunning of Pitchers Bob Feller and Harold Newhouser...
...Institute of Public Affairs meeting in Charlottesville, Va. last fortnight a thinking soldier talked plain to some think ing laymen when General Sherman Miles confessed that in the past six weeks bright military minds had painfully shed many a long-held preconception, proceeded to analyze the Battle of Flanders and emerged with a big-time military man's explanation of the success of Germany's modern war machine - and what could be done about it. Said the U. S. Army's Assistant Chief of Staff (G2 - Intelligence) and son of the late, great Nelson A. Miles...
...Chicago Board of Underwriters. Dry-witted, poker-faced Mr. Palmer has been assistant attorney for the U. S. Department of the Interior in 1912, assistant general counsel to the National Board of Fire Underwriters from 1913 to 1923. No sooner had he taken office than he asserted his long-held opinion that Illinois insurance laws were a hodgepodge mostly written in 1869 and the only thing to do with them was to clean them all off the statute books. After two years' work a code stringent enough to suit Director Palmer was drafted by two University of Illinois professors...
...legal advisor to Equitable for ten years, most famed of his legal activities was to handle John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s ousting of Oilman Robert Wright Stewart from Standard Oil of Indiana. After his election, Mr. Aldrich frankly conceded he came to Equitable representing Rockefeller interests, confirming the long-held assumption that Equitable is controlled by the Rockefellers...
...following turned upon Dr. Erdman. They began to regard a refusal to fight Liberals as an almost greater sin than being a Liberal. In the pages of The Presbyterian and in the faculty rooms of the seminary at Princeton, war was waged. Dr. Erdman was ejected from a long-held post of Student Advisor. It was even recorded that Dr. Erdman had been seen walking with Henry Sloane Coffin, Liberal leader. But somehow, war lost its glamor; and. last week, Dr. Erdman was elected Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, succeeding Dr. Macartney, signifying truce. The General Assembly...