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...merger is beneficial to Socony, essential to Vacuum. Socony is well integrated, with large production in California (General Petroleum) and the Southwest (Magnolia) and with nearly one-third of the total gasoline sales in "Soconyland" (New York and New England) as well as a major part of the kerosene business in China and India. From Vacuum it will gain an excellent line of lubricants and a distributing system which extends to every State and country (save Russia...
...program is as follows: Tuesday, June 16, the class will be the guests of W. H. Coolidge in Magnolia; Wednesday, June 17, the class will take luncheon at the Business School opposite the Stadium and attend the Yale baseball game. In the evening dinner will be at the Union Club in Boston at 7.30 o'clock; Thursday, June 18, there will be a business meeting at Holworthy hall at noon...
...execution of the idea of building skyscrapers like a graduated pile of boxes with the smallest on top - the "set back'' style to provide air and light. He designed the Seaboard National Bank in New York (Seaboard Pres ident Samuel Bayne is his father-in-law), the Magnolia Petroleum Building in Dallas, Tex. Other important Bossom commissions in the U. S. included the restoration of Fort Ticonderoga for ex-Congress man Herbert C. Pell. In Britain he is a member of the London County Council and chairman of the Committee of the Royal Society of Arts...
...told that he composed a work the day he was born, concerning which there is the immortal remark of my Uncle Toby in Tristram Shandy.* There are many instances of pious precocity- such as that of the unhappy little puritan girl who (so Cotton Mather in his Magnolia tells us, and with evident approval) spent eight hours a day in a dark closet weeping and praying for the forgiveness of her sins...
...father. The sheriff decided to take his prisoner to a nearby town for safekeeping, emerged with him. The girl's father raised a shotgun. Turmoil followed and, despite the urgings of many a citizen, the mob disarmed the sheriff, bundled Willie Kirkland into a truck, took him to Magnolia Gardens (where Sportsman Harry Payne Whitney has a shooting preserve, where the late Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna had his winter home). There they hanged him from an oak tree-16th lynching in the U. S. this year, Georgia's second in the fortnight. After shooting at the suspended body...