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After much wrangling the arrangement was modified. William Starling Sullivant Rodgers, tall, thick-set vice-president, was elected president, Jack Lapham became chairman of the executive committee and Mr. Holmes was shelved as board chairman. Week later at a board meeting Mr. Holmes pre-emptorily demanded resignations from the Laphams and four other directors. When they were refused Jack Lapham moved that Mr. Holmes resign and if he did not that he be ousted. Mr. Holmes was automatically out. Kindly Charles Bismark Ames, a former vice president, was recalled from the American Petroleum Institute to head the board. Last week...
...proposer of this plan was Pat Malloy, dark, thick-set Oklahoman. He was born at Salix, Iowa, 48 years ago. When he was 14, a cyclone killed his mother, father, sister, two brothers. As a Notre Dame graduate he went to Tulsa, served two terms as county prosecutor, once had a murder conviction set aside by a judge who ruled that "the prosecutor's closing argument was so eloquent as to have carried the jury beyond justice." For 20 years before his appointment to the Department of Justice in charge of criminal cases, Pat Malloy busied himself profitably...
North Dakota. Tall, thick-set Republican William Langer took his oath in Bismarck's Atalexius Hospital where he lay ill with influenza. Mrs. Minnie Craig, elected Speaker of the House, led the inaugural audience in singing the State hymn...
...stalwart old man, anthropologically a typical Alpine-globular head; wide-set eyes; square jaw; deep-set dark brown eyes; blobby, short-tipped, turned-down nose; broad shoulders; short, thick-set body; straight hair-boarded a boat at Seattle last week. He was Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, 63, curator of physical anthropology at the U. S. National Museum, bound for Kodiak Island off the coast of Alaska. There he will grub for the ancient debris which indicates that Mongoloid peoples millenia ago crept across Bering Strait,* down the western coast of the Americas and thence across the mountains and the rest...
Last week a vital, thick-set man with hair ruffled by nervous fingers, lectured in German and chalked hieroglyphics on a lecture room blackboard at University College, Nottingham, England. The Nottingham faculty and many a distinguished guest sat and listened intently, though only three of them could begin to comprehend the discourse. When the man finished they asked him to autograph the blackboard. He complied. Then the wise men of Nottingham had the blackboard varnished and stored away as a memento. The name scrawled on it is Albert Einstein...