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...Last year because the sales were dwindling to $29,000,000 and the profits to nil, and because N. C. R. could no longer pay dividends, high-powered Mr. Barringer resigned. Into his job but not his office went Col. Edward Andrew Deeds, tightlipped, bespectacled chairman of Niles-Bement-Pond Co. (electric machinery), of Pratt & Whitney (airplane motors), of General Sugar Corp. It was a home-coming for Colonel Deeds, for he got his start as a young engineer in N. C. R., rose to general manager before branching out into machinery and aviation. Last week after more than...
...millions and Mr. Kettering followed to become a pillar of G. M. Colonel Deeds became interested in aviation during the War. took charge of Government airplane production. He is largely credited with perfecting the Liberty motor. After the War he followed both electric machinery and aviation into Niles-Bement-Pond and Pratt & Whitney. As a director of National City Bank he stepped into the presidency of National Sugar Corp. On his 205-ft. Diesel yacht The Lotosland he has a pipe organ, a seaplane tender...
...whole week thereafter Japanese never ceased to fete the happy man from Manchukuo. As a special treat he was taken to a pond in the gardens of the Royal Palace, given a gun, permitted to shoot tame ducks...
...maniac, no art critic, was the Milwaukee thief who last week stole six paintings from the watchmanless Milwaukee Art Institute. He took Roy Brown's October, Trepied France, Cullen Yates's In the Delaware Valley, Peter Rotier's Deep Pond and September, Agnes Leindorffs The Sketch Class and a marine by William Ritchell. A fortnight ago someone stole the Institute's Study of a Nude by the late William Wallace Gilchrist Jr. The Institute's secretary said that though it could not afford a night watchman, no one had ever taken anything before...
...Abele, Jr.; E. H. Clark, Jr.; D. T. Dodge; C. P. Lewis; M. B. Stone; John Wiggins; F. H. White; and F. L. Young 2nd.; Section 2, D. F. Pitcher, leader; R. G. Coburn, Jr.; Frederick Fraley, Jr.; Isaac Harter, Jr.; Howard Lapsley; Charles Morgan, Jr.; R. W. Pond; R. G. Werner; H. S. Williston; and D. J. Finlayson; Section 3, G. L. Dow, leader; Richard Borden; F. L. Crowley; Eugene DuBois; Andrew Hepburn; J. D. Hersey; R. A. Maish; G. Q. Thorndike; and R. F. White...