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...Board, set up by Woodrow Wilson 22 years ago, passed out of legal existence. Though their terms had not expired, four members of the old Board were retired without pensions. At 67 John Jacob Thomas, a Roosevelt appointee, returns to his farm and his law practice in Nebraska. George Roosa James, 69, wise and crotchety, goes back to Memphis to train his son in the wholesale drygoods trade. The two members who have sat on the Board since its first meeting in 1914 will stay on in Washington: Charles Summer Hamlin, 74, as a technical adviser to the new Board...
...other Board members are no youngsters either in service or years. George Roosa James, Memphis drygoods man and banker, was appointed by President Harding in 1923. Next year he will be 70 and though he has the crotchets that go with age, he is crammed full of useful technical information. Adolph Caspar Miller, who will have his 70th birthday in a week, was one of the original members of the first Federal Reserve Board appointed by President Wilson in 1914. For 24 years before that he was an economist. His chances of reappointment are considered good, because...
William Nickerson Bates Jr. OcC., of Philadelphia, and Ferdinand Wilmerding Coudert '30, of New York City, were judged winners of the first and second Bowdoin prizes, respectively. In the graduate division, Edwin Roosa 2G, of New York City, and Charles Wayland Lightbody 1G, of Yorkton, Saskatchewan were given these prizes. The Bowdoin awards are given for dissertations in English of about 8000 words in length, on any approved subject. Besides cash awards, the winners receive bronze medals, and their names will be printed on the Commencement programs...