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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans for the writing of the second chapter in the history of the year-old H-Y-P Conference are now well under way. Last year the Conference was notably successful in its aim, the bringing together of important figures in governmental, academic and business life to discuss problems of particularly pertinent interest. By and large it represented a study of that great structure known as government, that bridge between society and the individual. The subjects there represented included foreign trade, agriculture, banking, social security, government and industry, and associated topics...
...half a century Rev. Adolf William Meyer of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Yonkers, N. Y. has kept conscientiously shipshape. Last week he uprose to tell 150 fellow clergymen of the Atlantic District of the United Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, sitting in Manhattan, how to preach successful sermons. First he counseled them to "get a good sleep Saturday night," warned them that "a torpid liver produces a dull sermon." To this admonition spry, old Dr. Meyer added four "don'ts" for lively preachers...
Died. Thomas Cochran, 65, partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; of heart disease; in Bedford, N. Y. On his statement that General Motors stock was selling cheap in 1926, it rocketed from 189 to 214½. To Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., he gave $10,000,000, including a bird sanctuary, the Addison Art Gallery...
Died. Henry King Browning, 68, Manhattan clothier, retired vice president (1900-32) of Browning, King & Co., grandson of its founder John H. Browning; of heart disease; in Tarrytown, N. Y...
...recipients are Ralph B. Murphy '39, of New Albany, Indiana; William M. Murphy '38, of Flushing, N. Y.; John S. Murphy '40, of Fulton, Ky; and Vincent L. Murphy '40, of New York City...