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President Dr. John R. Mott, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer and Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling were each mentioned as possible next president of the Federal Council. But most people were sure last week that another man had already been slated for the job-Dr. Albert William Beaven, 50. president of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School in Rochester, onetime (1930-31) president of the Northern Baptist Convention...
...plain of 1860. Where once was heard only the coyote's howl, now stands a clocktower capable of rendering the four-note Cambridge quarters. The clock, crowning jewel of the coronet, is the gift of the relict of Denver's long-time (1904-12, 1916-18) Mayor Robert W. Speer who conceived and planned the Civic Centre on the sand hill...
...biggest, busiest airports are operated like railroad terminals with announcers, numbered gates, everything to keep the passenger from going where he should not go. But at many fields it is still possible to do what a Dr. Andrew W. Speer of Wilkinsburg, Pa. did last week at Pittsburgh. He bought a $1 ticket for a joyhop, stepped into a nearby plane, made himself comfortable. The ship took off, set Dr. Speer down an hour & a half later in Columbus, Ohio. Good-natured officials of the airline (Transcontinental & Western Air) gave the bewildered doctor a free trip back to Pittsburgh (roundtrip...
During her freshman year at Bryn Mawr Mrs. Speer heard an address by the late Grace Dodge (first president of the Y. W. C. A.'s national board). In 1893 (her junior year) she left college to marry Dr. Speer. Thereafter her Y. W. C. A. interests grew greater & greater. Since the War, thinks Mrs. Speer, young womanhood has advanced immeasurably. Said she last week: "This generation, for the first time in the history of the world, has a pay envelope." This will produce a new morality, "sought for itself, for decency, for good taste, in a new spirit...
...Frederic M. Paistt 51, sister Theresa of Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, was chosen last week to succeed Mrs. Speer. Tall, broad-shouldered, bespectacled, Mrs. Paist is forceful but less reserved than her predecessor. She golfs with her candy-manufacturing husband, swims with her four children. Like her Brother Ray. she attended Stanford University. She is a onetime mathematics teacher, a longtime Y. W. secretary, never politically-minded. Next month she will preside at the monthly meeting of the National Board...