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...late president, gave the opportunity for the business interests of Portland, entrenched in the regents board, to deflect the college from its doubtful toying with ideas. The new president, Mr. Norman Coleman, was leader of the war time movement to oust the I. W. W. from mines and lumber camps. He is a stalwart defender of the political and social dogmata of the chamber of commerce, and accepts as his standard the business man's stamp of O. Keness...
...Department of Commerce, turning for a moment from the compilation of statistics on linseed oil and lumber, turned for a brief space to the very human subject of children. But as usual it had to deliver its findings in the form of statistics. It presented its results in maximums and minimums. Families with fathers 45-49 years old All Living Children Children Max. . . 8.1 6.6 Coal Miners Min. 3.3 3.0 Physicians Dentists, Surgeons Families with fathers 40-44 years old All Living Children Children Max. . 7.0 5.9 Coal Miners Min. 2.8 2.6 Architects Actors Inferences which may be drawn from...
...President Coolidge wrote to commend William Ritter, founder of a large lumber business in Columbus, who gave some $2,000,000 of stock in his company to 124 employes as a Christmas gift. Wrote Mr. Coolidge: "Such acts of generosity cannot help but lead to better cooperation and understanding between the employers and employes, and you are to be commended for the fine example you have shown...
Over 400 business establishments in the U. S. have manufactured toys for this Christmas. The industry has consumed this year about 30,000,000 board feet of lumber; and its products are estimated as being worth about...
...next year on schedule seemed likely when one scanned the list of Pitt's trustees and the personnel of the citizens' committee. Names : Andrew W. Mellon, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury ; Homer D. Williams (steel) ; John H. Nicholson (tubing) ; Robert B. Mellon (banks) ; Edward V. Babcock (lumber) ; George H. Clapp (aluminum) ; Howard Heinz (pickles) ; Marcus Aaron (china) ; Charles D. Armstrong (corks) ; Isaac W. Frank (foundries) ; Arthur L. Humphrey (air brakes) ; A. J. Kelly Jr. (realty) ; Hamilton Stewart (blast furnaces) ; T. H. B. McKnight (railroads...