Word: rowland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saying that "Yale is happy to associate herself with a group of sister institutions," President James Rowland Angell commented that young men of unequivocal intellectual promise "should have made available to them, no matter in what part of the country they may be living, the opportunity for training at one of our great historic seats of learning is a matter of distinct national importance, for only as genuine talent is discovered and cultivated can we properly capitalize our human resources, only thus can we make progress out of the intellectual mediocrity which characterizes so much of our education...
...President had a halfbrother. James Roosevelt, his father, first married Rebecca Rowland. She bore him one child, a son who was named James Roosevelt Roosevelt. He had a minor diplomatic career, died in 1927. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was not an only child. One brother, Elliott, died in 1893, aged 4. Surviving brother, Gracie Hall Roosevelt, onetime (1930-32) Controller of Detroit, is currently promoting a combination bus and rail...
...Jean) Paul Getty, 43, Oxford-educated spokesman for the Los Angeles Getty oil interests, who let one of his representatives, Harold L. Rowland, state his attitude toward the merger of two Tide Water operating subsidiaries with the parent holding company. Although his father left an estate of $21,000,000, Jean Paul Getty, an only son, had to make his own way in the oil world. In 1920 he was $400,000 in debt, by 1926 was a millionaire in his own right. Early in 1932 he bought a controlling interest in Pacific Western Oil Corp., a rich California producer...
...Rowland, Oilman Getty's representative, read a letter to the chairman setting forth that the Getty interests, "having the largest single investment" in Tide Water, approved of the management's efforts to effect operating economies and tax savings, but opposed the form of the merger agreement. Disapproval was voiced of 1) the directors' rights to determine conversion privileges and price of 873,000 shares of unissued preferred stock, and 2) "deprivation of rights which should belong to the stockholder," namely, the ability to vote annually on directors. Unperturbed, President Humphrey queried: "Does that mean you are voting...
Said Lawyer Rowland to Oilman Humphrey after the meeting broke up: "Thanks for letting me read our statement." Replied Mr. Humphrey: "That's all right. Sorry you're not with...