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Yesterday's vote of the Corporation sent the three Frederick Sheldon Prize Traveling Fellowships to David Dudley Bidwell '48 of Weston, and Lowell House, Richard Lee Ingraham '45 of Packanack Lake, New Jersey, and Richard Henry Milburn '48 of Newark, New Jersey, and Adams House. All three men were recipients of summa degrees in Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics, Mathematics, and Physics respectively...
...socialistic parties as well as the present governments of Western Europe--is perhaps too much realistically to hope for faced with our prevailing political temper. A minimum of desirability in United States policy, however, cannot, and must not, be permitted to seem too much to hope for. An overwhelming vote by the House Appropriations Committee should restore the European Recovery grant to its original amount. United action by the House and the Senate should then be secured with personal political considerations thrown aside...
...their 160th General Assembly. Church union was the principal subject-not with the Episcopalians (that is at present virtually a dead letter), but with the Presbyterians south of the Mason & Dixon line who broke away from the northern body during the Civil War. Assemblies of both churches will not vote on union until next year. Then if it is approved by three-fourths of the constituent presbyteries and ratified by both assemblies in 1950, a reunited General Assembly may be held in 1951. Elected Moderator of the northern church: the Rev. Jesse Hays Baird, 59, president of the San Francisco...
...Southern Presbyterians debated a proposal to withdraw from the Federal Council of Churches. This resolution (supported to a considerable extent by textile industrialists who are not happy about the Federal Council's liberal labor policies) was defeated in a poll of Southern presbyteries during the year by a vote of 62 to 23. New Moderator of the Southern Presbyterians is the Rev. Charles Darby Fulton, 55, onetime missionary to Japan and secretary of his church's Committee of Foreign Missions since...
Before he was old enough to vote, William Larimer Mellon decided that he had not been born to sit at a desk. He refused to finish school, was miserable as a shipping clerk. To curb his restlessness, staid Uncle Andrew Mellon assigned him some oil leases that had turned up in the course of some family deals. To them, William added scores of others. He built a refinery and pipeline, surprised his money-wise family by organizing an integrated oil business which he sold to the Rockefellers in 1895 for about twice what it cost...