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...more festive set flew out of Washington to Atlanta. Aboard the plane were Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor. Director for Air Regulation Vidal, Richard Roper, son of the Secretary of Commerce, Oilman James A. Moffett of the NRA and roly-poly little Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Silliman Evans, onetime Fort Worth newspaperman, who organized the junket. At At lanta, Postmaster General Farley and RFC Chairman Jesse H. Jones were picked up. Variously billed as "The Democratic Good-Will Tour of Texas," "The Garner-Farley Texas Trip" and (by capital wags) "The Farley Expedition to Rediscover Jack Garner...
...Avco have followed the election of La Motte Turck Cohu to the presidency. He was also made president of American Airways. And to succeed Vice President Hainer Hinshaw of American Airways was elected Col. Edward Vernon Rickenbacker. Also made a vice president was Avco's able little publicist, Silliman Evans...
Meanwhile the school has turned out many a notable graduate, including: Poet Robert Silliman Hillyer, Playwright-Direc- tor Worthington C. Miner, Vice President Edward T. Gushee of Detroit Edison Co., Vice President Henry T. Skelding of Guaranty Trust Co., Editor Albert G. Lanier of St. Nicholas, Novelist James Gould Cozzens. So enthusiastically did they spread the Kent gospel that by 1923 the enrolment demand had exceeded Father Sill's conception of what a school body should be. Nearby, under his guidance, was founded South Kent School, with one of his graduates, Samuel Slater Bartiett, as headmaster. First South Kent senior...
...director of the Zoological Laboratory: Edwin Francis Gay, professor of Economic History: Lionel Simeon Marks, professor of Mechanical Engineering: Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy: Charles Kingsley Webster, professor of History: Arthur Meier Schlesinger, professor of History: Kenneth John Conant, '15, associate professor of Architecture: Robert Silliman Hillyer '17, assistant professor of English; and tutor in the Division of Modern Languages...
...first board of regents consulted leading contemporary scientists-Faraday, Bache, Silliman -;who unanimously averred that Joseph Henry, natural historian and physicist at Princeton, was "without a peer in American science." Joseph Henry relinquished his private researches and gave 32 years, as the Institution's first secretary, to making its charter into a reality...