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...Woolworth Co. the age of retirement is reached at 60. As President Byron De Witt Miller will be 60 this month, he will retire on Jan. 1, will be succeeded by Vice President Charles Wurtz Deyo (pronounced Day-o). Mr. Miller began work for the great 5 & 10? store chain in 1896, got a job in the Poughkeepsie store when there were only nine Woolworths...
...Gehlbach wrestling with the control stick, vainly trying it at every conceivable position," Commander De Witt C. Ramsey, the Navy's official observer, told newsmen afterward. "Using an old pilot's trick, he even stood upright in the cockpit, hoping the wind pressure on his body would right the plane. Finally, at 2,000 ft., with the earth rushing at him 200 ft. a second, he bailed out and descended easily while the plane hurtled into a nearby pine tree...
...acquired an extensive collection of art books, was glad to let fellow students use them. The Frick art library grew & grew. A librarian had to be hired, then assistants; finally a house was built to hold it all. The Frick Art Reference Library, like Sir Robert Witt's in London, chose to specialize in photographs of works of art. It did not content itself with buying prints of pictures in museums, private collections and dealer galleries. Instead, it put special photographers under contract in France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, the U. S., sent them to obscure collections, little-known...
...that Rev. Merton Stacher ("Mert") Rice of mammoth Metropolitan Methodist Church has twice declined a bishopric. Likewise nationally known in their respective churches are Presbyterian Joseph Anderson Vance, Quaker Morton C. Pearson, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin. Congregationalists Charles Haven Myers and Warren Wheeler Pickett, Disciple of Christ Edgar De Witt Jones...
Present for MOP's oldtime bankers was Partner George W. Bovenizer of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. For MOP's present bankers there was Partner S. Parker Gilbert of the House of Morgan. Earle Bailie spoke for J. & W. Seligman & Co., De Witt Millhauser for Speyer & Co. Jesse Jones brought his financial adviser, Adolph Augustus Berle Jr., and his chief railroad examiner, John W. Barriger 3rd. Both the Interstate Commerce Commission and Federal Transportation Coordinator Eastman sent representatives. The bondholders sent potent members of protective committees...