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...President John Calvin Willever. Now 71, Mr. Willever has been with Western Union longer than any man now in active service. The name J. C. Willever has appeared on every Western Union blank since 1916-more than 5,000,000,000 times. In 1910, when the late Theodore N. Vail blazed into Western Union for a brief term as president, Mr. Willever al ready had the longest service record of any major executive. For years he had been trying io sell the Night Letter to his company. Mr. Vail let him have his way, added the Day Letter himself...
...institutional series began 28 years ago in the day of the late Theodore N. Vail, first president of the Bell System. Though a friend & contemporary of all the economic buccaneers of the late 19th Century, Theodore Vail was smart enough to see that a new day was dawning. Squarely he faced the fact that A. T. & T. was a monopoly but boldly set out to convince the public that a monopoly, at least in the telephone business, was a good thing. U. S. industry has grown far more monopolistic than it was in the trust-busting era in which...
Chase National Bank's Assistant Cashier Mary Vail Andress reported that the ratio of investments to loans in Federal Reserve member banks had risen from 44% in 1925 to 150% in 1936. "From my reading of Biblical literature I infer that Eve was created for Adam's express company," observed Miss Andress. "From my readings of financial literature I infer that commercial banks now exist for the express purpose of financing Government deficits...
Since the death of Wisconsin's "Dad" Vail in there has been only one grand old man in rowing, Jim Ten Eyck of Syracuse, now in his 86th year and active in the sport. His son, Young Jim, is coaching the infant Rutgers crew on Raritan. Syracuse, under Ten Eyck, is always a threat...
...telephone operator in her father's office Kay Boyle wrote voluminously, met and married a French engineering student at the University of Cincinnati. At 19 she went to France with her husband, has lived there ever since (she is now 31). Two years ago she married Author Laurence Vail, by whom she has" two daughters, one named Apple (see cut). Says Expatriate Boyle: "In literature, I have never wholly liked the work of women with the exception of Gertrude Stein. Tact and complacency have long been woman's attributes, and I think they prove a drawback to good...