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...serious, barrel-chested Dodge President K. T. Keller. For Keller had shown more than production genius and executive ability in the crowded, exciting days after 1928 that had added Plymouth to the line and given Chrysler a formidable competitor to Ford and Chevrolet. Competent, profane, full of studious curiosity, he had handled the complex problems of the Dodge plant-sales, labor, the thousands of trivia that pour over the desk of a big corporation executive-in his unruffled stride. In Walter Chrysler's mind there was no doubt that K. T. Keller had the mental heft to steer...
There is no "Mr. Irving" to profit from all this. A round-faced studious onetime parachutist named Leslie L. Irvin, tried to give his name to the company in 1919, but a stenographer added a final "G" on the incorporation papers. Leslie Irvin, now vice president of the company, was in the midst of things last week, at Letchworth on the active British front...
...been given almost a free hand with the paper and has instituted what he calls a "streamlined Chronicle." Most of its news is departmentalized, lumped under general headings. Onetime Editor Chester Harvey Rowell writes a column on the editorial page that frequently disagrees with the editorial; shy, studious Arthur Eggleston writes his own opinions of labor problems (for which the Chronicle disclaims responsibility); Royce Brier writes a front-page column on foreign affairs; Joseph Henry Jackson conducts the best book column in California. Of San Francisco's four newspapers, the Chronicle is the only one which pays much attention...
Homeric was the proxy fight launched by tall, studious Langbourne Meade Williams Jr. in 1928 before the ink was fairly dry on his Harvard Business School diploma. On his side was the family banking house into which he had been born 25 years before, the firm of John R. Williams of Richmond, Va. On the other was the established, close-mouthed management of the $19,303,681 Freeport Texas sulphur syndicate headed by old E. P. Swenson, onetime board chairman of Manhattan's powerful National City Bank...
Archeologists digging this year near the Chancellery building in Vatican City came upon five sculptured panels. By last week these were generally believed to be part of the Triumphal Arch of Tiberius. One of the carvings bore the only likeness of the studious emperor as an old man (he did not ascend the throne until...