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...Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight, Lord Leverhulme attributed his success to his wife's "gracious influence," adding, however, that it would be a poor compliment to her to say that she was a business woman. "She was a womanly woman and her knowledge of business was nil." During the last few years of his life he rose at 4:30 a. m., spent 20 minutes in exercises, anticipated Calvin Coolidge in the use of an electric horse. For some years, however, he rode each morning a flesh-and-blood horse, always went the same distance on the same...
...summer resort high in the mountains north of Manila. This school was established about 1907, if I remember correctly, and the first headmaster was Dr. Remsen B. Ogilby, now president of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. At the time this school was established, educational facilities in the Islands were practically nil for American youngsters whose parents were in the Islands for military or commercial reasons. At that time, I remember going to a Catholic school in Cotabato where all instruction was given by men in Spanish and I was the only white pupil. Shortly after, an American school teacher opened...
...there is a very definite reason for the prevalence of Harvard men in the Investment field. Bond selling requires certain very definite characteristics in the way of background, education, and training, most of which most Harvard men may be assumed to possess. The technical requirements at the start are nil; a man entering the field can learn whatever is required of him, and as he progresses, his actual knowledge of investments will increase in direct proportion to the amount of effort he puts into learning his subject. Above all, a certain intelligence, ability to master a subject and the ability...
...Babcock, then chairman of the Mutual Life Insurance Co., was shown that the bank's old charter was very broad, and hence useful. Quickly he reorganized the guaranty & indemnity company as a guaranty trust company. Its capital then (1891) was $100,000, its surplus $720, its undivided profits nil, its deposits nil. Six months later capital was $2,000,000, deposits more than $1,000,000. Thereafter (the corporate name was changed to Guaranty Trust Co. in 1895) growth was sedate, based on insurance policy loans and railroads trusteeships. That is, until Morgan Partner Davison took hold...
...Arkansas's Will A. Oldfield (Democrat)-each predicted, as a matter of course, that their partisans throughout the land would win or retain enough seats to control the U. S. House of Representatives in the 71st Congress. The effect of these campaigns upon the presidential result is almost nil. except in special cases. In allegedly wavering Florida, the last minute efforts of Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the Great Commoner, Democratic candidate for Congress, will doubtless help the Brown Derby. Similarly effective, for Hooverism, has been and will be Ruth Hanna McCormick in faction-ridden Illinois. Lowden...