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Irate minority stockholders in two investment trusts made attempts in Manhattan last week to oust their respective managements. A stockholders committee headed by Stockbroker Sanford Griffith and Thomas E. Brittingham Jr. of the famed Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation wanted to turn out the management of Fourth National Investors, a $22,000,000 trust run by Fred Y. Presley, who also promoted and is still president of National Investors, Second National Investors, Third National Investors. There was little complaint about Mr. Presley's investment record, which is better than the sorry average (TIME, March 9). Though questioning management relations between...
...limited to areas close to the canal. In places the fresh water had in late years already shown signs of failing and salt water was taking its place. Truck farmers and fruit growers rose in alarm. They formed the Central & South Florida Water Conservation Committee with headquarters at Sanford. They published large advertisements, "What Will You Do Without Water?" They wrote to the President, were answered by a White House clerk. They wrote to the War Department, were answered by publicity releases saying that the canal was going right ahead. Then they began writing to Congressmen. Thus Senator Van denberg...
...Near Sanford, N. C., Mrs. Alton Jourdon, 26, who expected to have a baby in another month, last week went to the well in her farmyard to draw water. "When I bent over the well," she said after an accident which drew newspaper attention throughout the nation, "everything went black. The next thing I remember was being in the cold water, trying to keep afloat. Soon there were two of us, and I had to keep...
...successor to Edward Sanford Martin '77 who retires after fifteen years in "The Chair," Do Voto steps into the oldest editorial post in America, begun in 1853 under the editorship of George William Curtis and continued from 1900 to 1920 by William Dean Howells...
...small town of Sanford where our camp was located was filled with such tongue-wagging gossips as TIME pictured who had nothing better to say about the CCC except that we most certainly would rape their entire female population under 25. After a two-months' sojourn there, we had the whole town on our side. Of course our camp contained the usual percentage of undesirables. What camp didn't? And our Commanding Officer, a jolly Captain, by knowing whom I feel a better person, weeded these characters out precisely as TIME showed, by the dishonorable discharge method...