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...thereupon pitched in and helped elect as President its guest of honor at the founding banquet in Cincinnati-William McKinley. Through the subsequent decades N. A. M. worked for the Parcel Post Act, the Federal Reserve Act, the Food & Drug Act, Workmen's Compensation legislation and the Panama Canal. It has always stood for a bigger & better merchant marine, and probably its most notable achievement was in promotion of foreign trade in the days before the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. At one time it maintained its own commercial attaches in important foreign business centres, and its voluminous files...
...Faces-Even at this unseasonable period, however, the seeds of reform were sprouting within N.A.M. And the sprouts were diligently cultivated by a group of men who, if not Reds, were progressive enough to realize that times had changed since the days of William McKinley. Among the flowing stocks, wing collars and morning coats of the N.A.M. veterans, they were distinctly new faces. Significantly, most of them had made their public names since 1929. Typical of the N.A.M. "progressives" are men like President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp., Henning Webb Prentis Jr. of Armstrong Cork, Tobaccoman Williams, Chairman...
Died. Captain James Vallely, 83, detective; in Houston, Tex. In Buffalo, on the night of Sept. 6, 1901, Vallely was called from his office to the Temple of Music where President McKinley had just been shot. He found a furious mob trying to get at Assassin Leon Czolgosz, who had been seized and put in a back room. Vallely ordered a patrol wagon sent to the building's back entrance. While the mob surged around it, Vallely sneaked Czolgosz out the front, took him to jail in the President's carriage...
William T. Ernist, Canton, Ohio--McKinley High School, Canton...
Flanked in later days by a line of resorts including Asbury Park and Bradley Beach, both developed by astute Mr. Bradley, Ocean Grove acquired in 1876 a big auditorium in which spoke not only religious leaders but Presidents of the U. S.-Grant, Garfield, McKinley, Roosevelt I, Taft, Wilson. Last week, when it reached the height of its most successful season since 1929, Ocean Grove was still a predominantly Methodist theopolis, one of a few communities left in the U. S. which are run on a strictly godly basis...