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Last January, at the request of Chester H. McCall, 28-year old assistant to Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper, Wingo gave up his job in a Washington bank to put into affect a plan for a "laboratory of leadership in public affairs," by which college men and women from all over the country would be picked each year to study Washington affairs at first hand...
...McCall and Wingo Combine...
...plan, now embodied in the National Institution of Public Affairs, was first worked out after McCall and Wingo observed and pondered the contrast between the efficiency with which business draws ability to its service and the haphazard way in which most public servants are recruited. The idea, however, is not a new one, for included in the last will and testament of George Washington is the wish for a national institution at Washington to afford to young people a training in the social sciences, particularly government and politics...
...piled up huge unsalable inventories. The year he resigned the deficit was the third biggest in the company's history. Neither Mr. Warner, who became chairman of the executive committee, nor Mr. Noah, who became president, had ever run a woolen mill. But Mr. Warner, as president of McCall Corp. (publishers of McCall's Magazine), was an expert on merchandising and style promotion. Mr. Noah, as vice president of Gimbel Bros., Philadelphia, knew the department store trade. Their problem was to consolidate manufacturing units, to sell all that American Woolen produced, to guess what styles the public wanted...
Married. Albert Shaw, 75, political scientist, founder-editor-publisher of Review of Reviews; and one Virginia McCall, 22, his secretary; in Gainesville...