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...National Consulting Board, Director of the U. S. Council of National Defense and Advisory Commission, Secretary of the U. S. Representation on the Inter-Allied Munitions Council. After the War he returned to his A. T. & T. statistical work, soon became a Vice President. In 1919 venerable Theodore N. Vail,** once working superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, his presidency to Harry Bates Thayer, then a Vice President and Director. Last year Mr. Thayer was made Chairman of the Board, and Mr. Gifford, at 40, was made President...
When, at that time, it became evident that the U. S. must enter the war, the National Consulting Board selected a corps of 240 experts from every branch of industry to make a survey of the country's resources. Theodore N". Vail, dynamic Dutchman, then President of the A. T. & T., recommended W. S. Gifford to head this corps. No one outside the electrical industry had ever heard of Gifford, yet on Vail's word he was appointed. When the corps had done its work, he was chosen Director of the Advisory Committee of the Council of National...
...Resta had called Brooklands "the easiest course in the world." After he won the U. S. championship in 1916, and six other big events the same year, Dario Resta had occupied a niche similar to those accorded Barney Oldfield, Ralph Mulford, Ralph De Palma, Eddie Rickenbacker, Harry Grant, Wilcox, Vail and perhaps the Chevrolets-all old-school racers. He was a spectacular driver, daring and popular. He held many records, won the Vanderbilt Cup race twice running (1915 and 1916). He used to drive Peugeots, usually blue...
Pole Vault--Won by Mc Clellan (University School); second, Fogg (Burlington); faird, tie between Harvey (Andover), Vail (Andover), Richardson (Dean), and Clark (Exeter), Height 11ft...
...have in mind that an Edison or a Theodore N. Vail, a Westinghouse or a Michael Pupin might open up for their less gifted brothers, new fields where their fellow workers could not in a hundred years have provided for themselves like opportunity...