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Number One. At 2.30 the previous afternoon, Judge Elbert H. Gary of the U. S. Steel Corporation invited a number of distinguished persons to attend a meeting at his office in Manhattan. The guests included Richard Washburn Child, onetime (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Mark O. Prentiss; William E. Knox, President of the American Bankers' Association; William B. Joyce, Chairman of the National Surety Co.; Governor Smith of New York, Assemblyman F. Trubee Davison and others...
They were called to meet because Mr. Child and Mr. Prentiss had a plan to present. Together they had recently made a survey of crime conditions in the U. S. They found that there is more crime in this country than in any other in the world. They thought that something ought to be done about it. Said Mr. Prentiss...
...Carnegie Corporation, of Manhattan, came $250,000; other contributions came from the John F. Slater fund, of Charlottesville, Va., and the J. C. Penny Foundation, of Manhattan. Individuals contributing: Julius Rosenwald, Cyrus H. McCormick, Harold H. Swift, Mrs. Emmons Elaine, all of Chicago; Samuel Mather and Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss, of Cleveland; Miss Fanny T. Cochran and Miss Juliana Wood, of Philadelphia; Joseph Lee, George Wigglesworth, Charles E. Mason, of Boston; Edward S. Harkness, George Foster Peabody, Paul D. Cravath (Chairman of Fisk's Board of Trustees, whose father was a Fisk founder and its President for 25 years...
...competency, every cent of which was made in unexceptionable pursuits, from untainted clients. Health, perfect, signalized by the ability to box with Muldoon, ride with W. S. Hart and eat anything. Oratory, colorful yet dignified, a pleasing compromise between the stilted phraseology of Webster and the poetic nights of Prentiss. Ethnology, Scotch-English- Irish-German, the united product of grandparents named McGregor, Lee, O'Brien and Schurz. Public Record, after business and farming success, terms as Governor, United States Senator, Cabinet officer, Ambassador and the author of textbooks on world economics. Habits, excellent; a moderate drinker before...
Colonel John W. Prentiss, of Hornblower & Weeks, a partner of Secretary of War Weeks, was elected President of the Association for the coming year. The convention of 1924 will be held in Cleveland...