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Complete information may be secured at National Headquarters, 911 Bankers Realty Building, Raleigh, North Carolina, or from the Young Democratic Club...
Fleishhacker foolery reaches its summit in endless pranks with Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury, head of Standard Oil of California. Once when Mr. Kingsbury was bound East, Banker Fleishhacker had great bunches of onions delivered to him at every station. Oilman Kingsbury retaliated by sending a truck filled with water buffaloes, elks, and lesser animals C. O. D. to the bank, its arrival being announced by a lusty, liveried bugler. Mr. Fleishhacker was once grieved to learn that his good friend had been bitten on the lip by a pet dog. Promptly he entered the Kingsbury sanctum on all fours, barking...
Died. Harvey Joshua Hill, 51, famed campaign director for the Red Cross; of heart disease; in White Plains, N. Y. He worked with Ivy Ledbetter Lee to raise $123,000,000 and $117,000,000 for Red Cross War funds; with Bruce Barton. Dr. John Raleigh Mott and the late Cardinal Gibbons on a drive for $212,000,000 for the United War Work Appeal...
...Business. So may its executives tend to be dynamic, important personages-in contrast to the London draper who founded the Young Men's Christian Association in 1844. Nothing demonstrates the Y. M. C. A.'s world position today more than the calibre of Dr. John Raleigh Mott, identified with it ever since he became a student secretary in 1888 when he was graduated from Cornell. Dr. Mott resigned last November as "general secretary" of the International Committee (TIME, Nov. 16). Because many Y. M. C. A. leaders are bright, aggressive Northerners, some were surprised to learn last week...
Injured were: Josephus Daniels, 69, Wilsonian Secretary of the Navy, publisher of the Raleigh (N.. C.) News & Ob server, when the automobile in which he was riding was forced over an embankment near Atlanta and struck a tree; se vere lacerations of the scalp and a broken wrist. Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett & Wife, when their automobile skidded and overturned near Camden, S. C. Mrs. Gannett was taken to a Camden hospital, suffering a broken collar bone. Publisher Gannett proceeded to his Miami Beach home before he discovered he had three broken ribs. British States man Winston Churchill, struck...