Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred guests including the Yardling volunteers, the Freshman Committee of P. B. H., Edmond Lab. Cherbonnier '39, and Raymond Dennett '36, 3G, are expected to attend...
...Raymond Pearl believes that in the 17th Century, world population began to rise from a relatively static figure of about 450,000,000. Now it is approximately 2,100,000,000-an average density of some 40 persons to the square mile. Dr. Pearl has constructed a "logistic" curve following the population rise of the past three centuries. If this curve is not skewed by some worldwide catastrophe, if it continues to follow its geometric destiny, it will go on rising, but more slowly, and will flatten out some 160 years hence at a population figure...
This speculation is contained in a slender, thoughtfully written book full of charts and tables, published this week and called The Natural History of Population* Author Raymond Pearl, an eminent biologist of Johns Hopkins University, has been much in the news lately because Harold LeClair Ickes, an eminent Washington politician, lighted on one of Pearl's researches in another field in an attempt to show that U. S. newspapers avoid certain types of news. Dr. Pearl had concluded that tobacco impairs a smoker's chances for long life; umbrageous Secretary Ickes felt that this finding was insufficiently reported...
...Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. announce that they propose to admit to general partnership on February 17, 1939, Messrs. Henry C. Alexander, I. C. Raymond Atkin, and William A. Mitchell...
Both Isaac Cubitt Raymond Atkin and William Arthur Mitchell got their start with the Traders Bank of Canada as junior clerks (i.e., office boys with standing). Both stayed with the bank when it was merged with the Royal Bank of Canada; both became inspectors. In 1925, when J. P. Morgan needed two good commercial bankers, both were hired. Both went to live in New Jersey, to play golf together on week ends. In 1931 both were upped to the newly created title of manager. Both gained prestige when Morgan gave up underwriting and concentrated on commercial banking...