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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chapter, a board of trustees including such Episcopalians as onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, onetime Under Secretary of State William Richards Castle, onetime Ambassador to Great Britain Alanson Bigelow Houghton, retired Bishop Philip Mercer Rhinelander, Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, Senate Chaplain ZeBarney Thorne Phillips, was asked on the motion of Trustee Pepper to terminate Dean Bratenahl's incumbency, tender him the offices of dean emeritus and titular chairman of the building committee. With all but the foregoing members abstaining from voting, the Chapter thereupon retired Dean Bratenahl. To the press was issued a statement which implied that the dean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dean Change | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Died. Count Francisco Matarazzo, 86, "Brazil's richest man," Italian-born Sao Paulo industrialist; after brief illness; in Rio de Janeiro. The Matarazzo United Industries produce rice, starch, rayon, cotton, liquor, fish oil, fish meal, lipstick, face powder, sugar, motion pictures, vegetable oils, linseed oil, iron and aluminum products, castor oil, coffee, flour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 22, 1937 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...success of the new officers. Elected amid voicing of universal opinion that the Clubs this year reached a low ebb, these officers are entrusted with the task of reviving enthusiasm. Specific plans are as yet unsettled, but the purposeful attitude of the members who voted down a motion to disband contrasts favorably with last autumn's lethargic rehearsals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESUSCITATION | 2/19/1937 | See Source »

With this nicely articulated case against him, Percival E. Jackson, attorney for the plaintiffs, hid his surprise last week, quickly joined in a motion for adjournment when Mr. Proskauer read Mr. Doherty's offer of settlement. It included a tender of attorneys' fees for the suing stockholders. Wrote Mr. Doherty from his ten hospital rooms: "I would not have it thought that any payment made by me to settle the present situation could be considered in the slightest degree as an admission of any remissness. . . . [Our] organization is built up to manage properties and not to conduct litigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mr. Doherty Defers | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...error of the University News Services the date of the lecture of Charles F. Goodrich, chief engineer of the American Bridge Company, was announced as February 11. The lecture, a sound motion picture on the building of the San Francisco Oakland Bay bridge, will be presented at the New Lecture Hall at 7:30 o'clock on February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOODRICH SPEAKS FEB. 19 | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

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