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...been poor. Now I can build a home and educate my children." Mail Carrier Harold Henry and wife stopped worrying about how they would pay for their new baby, expected any day. Ronald Gandee, 24-year-old Coast Guardsman, shouted that at last he could marry his sweetheart Frances Longley. Tony Roberts, 26, milker; Warren Wosser, 28, jobless fireman; Eddie Souza, 24. substitute fireman and James Nettro, 26. trainman, all gloated over hauls of ten to 75 lb. and dreamed their dreams...
...Comptroller of the Currency. John Ballantyne, one-time chairman of the First National, was selected as president. The board of directors included Alex Dow, president of Detroit Edison Co., George R. Fink, president of National Steel (maker of much automobile steel), Murray W. Sales, Wesson Seyburn, Clifford B. Longley (Ford attorney) and Edsel Ford. Many a time in the past has Henry Ford, dissatisfied with purchasing this material or that, undertaken to manufacture it himself. Often has he expressed his dissatisfaction with bankers-as tyrants over business, as reckless wasters of their depositors' money. On the new bank board...
...little-known episode of the warship "Worcester," which carried free supplies from American sympathizers to the Parisians, during the siege of 1870. Under the heading, "Religion, Finance and Democracy in Massachusetts," Mr. J. C. Miller discusses the economic and political causes and consequences of the Great Awakening; R. S. Longley relates the history of mobs and mob-rule in Revolutionary and Pro-Revolutionary times...
...Thereupon Mr. Ford cut his cash bid from $11,000,000 to $8,250,000-$5,625,000 for the First National and $2,625,000 for Guardian National. The R. F. C. sat through a quiet Washington Sunday. The bankers-Clifford B. Longley, Wilson W. Mills, Dr. Fred T. Murphy, James Thayer McMillan-shuttled between Detroit and Dearborn all Sunday. The sun set. The R. F. C.'s 6 p. m. deadline for a yes-or-no answer came & went. There was the Ford proposition. The bankers could take it or leave it. Before midnight they took...
...Patten, who created him under the name of Burt L. Standish. Now he will probably live in his rewritten version in Harkness Brick Court, exercise under the eagle eye of Bob Kiphuth in the new Whitney Memorial Gymnasium and snatch a toasted bun for breakfast at the new Ac Longley's, where Mrs. Graves is no longer cashier...