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...ushers have been chosen from both Harvard and Dartmouth. The Harvard ushers include John Allen '39, Gaspar G. Bacon Jr. '37, Donald W. Baker '37, Frederick P. Barrett '37, Joseph A. Bloombergh '37, John B. Bowditch '37, H. Shippen Goodhue '38, Arnett McKenuan '37, Neil G. Malone '37, Douglas Mercer '40, Henry P. Roosevelt '39, William H. Schmidt, 2nd '37 and Charles M. Storey...
Republic Steel's Tom Mercer Girdler: I believe the American standards of living will continue to rise...
Divorce Revealed, Mrs. Doris Mercer Kresge, divorced wife of 5? & 10? Store-man Sebastian Spering Kresge, who claimed she wanted $10,000.000 to bear a child; and Iranian Prince Farid of Sadri-Azam, the Nezam-ed-Dowleh of Isfahan, whom she married in 1933; in Paris...
...victims struck back at their radio tormenter by distributing about Trenton mimeographed sheets in which they snickered at Carter's "Bond Street elegance and Piccadilly flair," observed that he "flew through the air with the latest of cheese," recommended "more ether" for such radio commentators. Equally irate was Mercer County Grand Jury Foreman Allyne M. Freeman at Carter's implication that politics, not justice, motivated his jurymen. Cried Foreman Freeman: "A cowardly, libelous and malicious lie! I consider his comments an insult to the Grand Jury. I shall never accept a penny nor an ounce of political patronage...
Since the death of the last Jones president in 1926, J. & L. has had no less than four presidents from outside. Most famed was Tom Mercer Girdler, now head of Republic Steel. It was during Mr. Girdler's term that Aliquippa became known to steelmen as the "perfect company town" and to labor agitators as the "Siberia of America." And it was under Mr. Girdler that J. & L.'s profits reached $20,800,000 in 1929. During Depression the company accumulated nearly $18,000,000 worth of deficits. Even under President Samuel E. Hackett, a master salesman...