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Major Lester Draper ("Bing") Seymour is the man E. L. Cord wanted in place of La Motte Cohu last spring. At that time Cord was not strong enough to have Seymour elected. But he did succeed in having President Cohu's undated resignation placed in care of Avco Board Chairman William Averell Harriman, just in case. For several weeks matters went smoothly, and one day - the story goes - when Cord, Cohu & Harriman were riding in a taxicab, Cord asked Banker Harriman for the resignation, tore it up. When hostilities reopened, he bitterly regretted his impulse...
Short, thick-necked, addicted to pipes and vivid neckties. Major Seymour is the first dyed-in-wool operations man to pre side over American Airways. He served with the Army Air Corps overseas, re turned to become consulting engineer to the Chief of Army Air Service. Shortly after National Air Transport was organized in 1926, and before it began service, "Bing" Seymour joined its ranks. He remained with it until a few months ago when he resigned as vice president in charge of operations (of United Airlines, which" had absorbed NAT). To him went much credit for early airmail pioneering...
...Indianapolis last week, the Federal Council of The Churches of Christ in America settled its affairs with calm and dispatch. After electing Rev. Dr. Albert William Beaven, evangelical Baptist, its new president (TIME, Dec. 12), the Council gave its vice-presidency, a new office, to Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, Presbyterian moderator. The Council's structure was tightened up, its meeting times changed from quadrennial to biennial, in accordance with committee recommendations which were practically all approved. Deferred until 1934 was a proposal to let the Federal Council administer for its constituents such activities as they may commit...
...defeated G. P. Webber '33, (L) 3-2; C. P. Webber '33, (L) defeated F. W. Fox '33, (K) 3-2; L. D. Dawes '35, (L) defeated A. H. Bryan '35, (K) 3-1; T. W. Thorndike, Jr. '35, (L) defeated A. R. Benner '35 (K), 3-1; Malcolm Seymour '35, (L) defeated Clifford Mannal...
Young Lawyer Horatio Seymour Rubens, who in 1893 had a smooth, fat face, a wispy mustache and a confident manner for his 24 years, had not been merely a footballer at C. C. N. Y. He had also made friends with a Cuban classmate, one Gonzalo de Quesada. When Quesada introduced him to Jose Julian Marti, known as "the Master" to U. S.-exiled Cuban revolutionaries, young Rubens caught fire from Marti's fervor, swore he would get in there and fight for Cuban independence. This book is the disarmingly partisan record of how Cuba finally got quit of Spain...