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...radio that 90% of the cotton textile industry was good-hearted at bottom, he was only indulging in squirely politeness. Last week the directors of Cotton-Textile Institute, Inc. plumped for a 40-hr, work week and an 80-hr. weekly limitation on mill operations. But George A. Sloan, the Institute's able young head, was able to muster only ten of the industry's 30 million spindles for the Institute's plan.* He announced that when he had mustered 20 million spindles he would ask Mr. Roosevelt to use the New Deal as a club...
Perkins Scholarships: Henry Black, of Reinbeck, Iowa; and Paul Burton DeWitt 1L, of Sheldon, Iowa. Rumrill Scholarships: David McConnell, of Davidson, North Carolina. Stoughton Scholarships: Henry Maurice Goldman 2Du, of Dorchester; Joseph Vincent O'Brien 2M, of Dorchester; Alfred Hertz Rosenthal '33, of Dorchester; and William Alexander Sloan 2L, of Dorchester...
...Independents were a brave cause in 1916 when able young Artists Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Bellows. Samuel Halpert, Walter Pach and A. S. Bay-linson founded it. Then the National Academy of Design's snobbism smothered unorthodox U. S. art. Now Henri, Halpert and Bellows are dead, and the discovery of new U. S. art has become a highly organized business. Except for pictures by Founders Sloan, Pach, Baylinson and a few others, only "undiscovered" art hung last week on the walls of a long room like a warehouse. The Independents have no judges, no jury, no awards...
Walter P. Chrysler, Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., Frank Couzens (son of the Senator) are three of the 13 directors of the new National Bank of Detroit which two weeks ago succeeded the closed Guardian and First National Banks. Others: Donaldson Brown, vice president of General Motors; Henry Edward Bodman, Detroit lawyer; John Battice Ford Jr. (no kin of Henry), vice president of Michigan Alkali Co.; James Inglis, chairman of American Blower Corp.; Tracy W. McGregor, Detroit philanthropist; James Thayer McMillan, president of Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co., vice president of the Detroit Free Press; Peter J. Monaghan, Detroit lawyer; James Stansbury...
...Alfred P. Sloan Jr. made it clear that his company was in no sense embarking on a permanent banking venture. Though all directors and President James McEvoy were drafted from GM executives, GM intends to dispose of its National Bank stock just as soon as the enterprise is fully under way. An offering will be made to depositors and stockholders in the two old banks. Guardian National and First National, and if they do not want it, then to the public. A new board picked from Detroit's leading businessmen will be elected shortly...