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Vice Presidents Edward Eagle Brown and John Prince Oleson have long occupied almost identical offices in Chicago's First National Bank. Both suites open into a single reception room, have the same kind of paneling, fireplaces and desks. Last week, when Mr. Brown was elected president of First National and Mr. Oleson was elected board chairman, most people sent duplicate bouquets. One who did not was Charles Gates Dawes. He sent a large basket of red roses. They were placed on a filing cabinet halfway between the two offices...
...Chairman Oleson is an up-from- messenger banker. He left grade school at Lombard, Ill. to run errands for First National at $4 a week. The year "Ned" Brown graduated from Harvard Law, John Oleson was proudly wearing the title "loaning officer." Vice President since 1916, he directed the investment of bank funds, was able to accumulate sufficient cash before the bank holiday to meet withdrawals of 20% of the bank's deposits without outside help. Now 60, he succeeds Frederick Holbrook Rawson who re tired as chairman last August because of ill health. To fill the vacancies left...
...Flagpole Sitting." Capt. John O. Donaldson and Pilot Ole Oleson planned a flight to test the endurance of planes, not of pilots. At Roosevelt Field, L. I. a Stinson monoplane would be flown by relays of relief pilots sent aboard at intervals by a rope ladder dropped from the refuelling plane. The pilot being relieved would drop to earth with a parachute. Last week Director Gilbert G. Budwig of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, refused to sanction the flight, refused to waive the rule requiring aircraft to remain 300 ft. apart in the air. He said...
...Minnesota Democrats nominated Mrs. Anna Oleson...
...Mich.), Martin A. Morrison (Ind.), Jeannette Rankin (Mont.)-first Congresswoman. Old favorites include Josephus Daniels and William C. Redfield (Secretary of Commerce under Mr. Wilson). Besides Miss Rankin, there will be two other women of prominence- Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen (daughter or W. J. B.), and Mrs. Annie Dickie Oleson (unsuccessful Minnesota Democratic Senatorial candidate last Fall...