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Father of the plan was Charles Cotterill, a Manhattan promoter-attorney specializing in Interstate Commerce Commission cases. Cotterill plugged his idea for years, finally interested Wilmington's Du Pont family. For president. Transport chose Burge M. Seymour, head of Manhattan's big Metropolitan Truck Leasing Co., a top-flight operations man. For financing. Transport went to Kuhn, Loeb & Co., which underwrote railroad giants in an earlier...
Oxford and Cambridge Universities have sent to President Conant a reply to the Christmas greetings and expressions of "sympathy and admiration" communicated to those universities in December by President Conant and President Charles Seymour, of Yale...
...seems strange that President Charles Seymonr of Yale University should be urging our participation in the war when Yale undergraduates will be called upon to do the fighting, whereas Mr. Seymour, who was only 32 when we entered the World War did not, as far as the records disclose, serve in our armed forces," Ham Fish pointed...
Last June, a Yale law student named Robert Douglas Stuart Jr. deplored Yale University President Charles Seymour's espousal of open aid to the Allies, believing it would lead the U. S. into war. Furthermore, he thought Seymour's views were not those of the student body and got up a poll showing 3-to-1 on his side. General Robert E. Wood (Sears, Roebuck) heard of the Yalemen's activities, asked Stuart to visit him. Out of their conversation grew the America First Committee...
...Seymour E. Harris, associate professor of Economics, will introduce the speakers after the meeting has been opened by C. Joseph Clawson ocC, president of the Council. A discussion period conducted by vice-president Gordon Haines '41 will conclude the session...