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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JOHN M. MACUIRE...
Canadian-born Fred W. Ramsey began as stockroom boy with the Perfection Stove Co. (subsequently absorbed by the Cleveland Metal Products Co.). Then in his mid-teens, he joined the Cleveland Y. M. C. A. and soon became, in sequential progression, star Boarder, among other things. At one point during his religio-business career he was about to leave business to become a "Y" secretary, but a factory manager died, Ramsey took the job of expanding the plant. As a director of the potent Cleveland Trust Co., onetime president of the Cleveland Aluminum Rolling Mills Co., Cleveland Foundry Co., financial...
...younger Mott was 14 years old. He was graduated from Cornell University* in 1888 and the same year he went to Mount Hermon, Mass., attended the Bible study class of Dwight L. Moody, uneducated, forceful evangelist. Since that time Dr. Mott has had an unbroken connection with the Y. M. C. A. More than any other individual he is credited with bringing the Y. M. C. A. to its present $200,000,000 status, and to a place in world esteem which makes it, unlike many another religious or semi-religious body, internationally and provincially welcome. Abundantly energetic, Dr. Mott...
...electrons to escape from the tube's cathode than does Dr. Coolidge's nickel window. And the new contraption is relatively cheap, available for research laboratories everywhere to experiment with the mightiest rays that man has yet learned to control. Remarkable is the fact that Dr. C. M. Slack, Westinghouse Electric's inventor of the glass window, is only...
...debaters: from Oxford University, Alan T. Lennox-Boyd, C. S. Malcolm Brereton, Dingle M. Foot; from Columbia, Lawrence A. Tassi, William T. Matthews, Kenesaw Mountain Landis...