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...finish this play by Webster...
...officers. By A. B. A. procedure each year's president is actually selected two years ahead when he is chosen for the job of second vice president, thence moving up according to custom to vice president and president. At the New Orleans convention two years ago outspoken Orval Webster Adams, executive vice president of Utah State National Bank of Salt Lake City and thus a representative of small unit bankers, jumped to his feet on the floor and offered the bitter and impractical suggestion that bankers boycott U. S. bonds. Supported by a surge of other independent bankers, Orval...
...Savannah, Missouri, Harold Bengloff, New York; Robert S. Hormell, Brunswick, Maine, Edward T. Haslam, Council Grove, Kansas; Lemuel Bowden, Jr., Norfolk, Virginia; John L. Wilson, Sturgis, Kentucky; Arthur L. Abrams, Roxbury; John Maier, Royersford, Pennsylvania; Edward S. Miller, Sioux City, Iowa; Sinclair T. Allen Jr., Proctor, Vermont; Earle H. Webster, Bridgewater...
...director of the Boston and Maine Railroad, the Merrimac Chemical Company, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Stone and Webster, Inc., the Old Colony Trust Company, the Southern Pacific Company, the First National Bank of Boston, and numerous other companies...
...persistent Reader-Writer Knowlton look into Webster's, the Shorter Oxford English or Bouvier's Law dictionaries and he will find that there is no distinction in the spelling of barratry, the purchase or sale of ecclesiastic preferment, or of offices of state, and barratry, the offense of exciting lawsuits...