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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leadership of Elton Maye, professor of Industrial Research. It will take the form of a diplomatic round table in which each nation involved in European complications is to be represented. Among those taking part are Dr. Eugen Rosenstock-Hussy. Kuno Francke professor of German Art and Culture; William Y. Elliott, professor of Government; and Dr. Olgerd P. M. Sherbowitz-Wetzor, assistant in Slavic languages...
Among the 181 U. S. citizens listed last month by the Senate Munitions Committee as having an annual income of $1,000,000 or more during the War was George Francis Johnson of Endicott, N. Y. A sandy-haired man of 77, George F. Johnson is chairman of Endicott Johnson Corp., second biggest shoe manufacturer in the U. S. Once an $18-a-week worker in the factory he now owns, President Johnson is conspicuous among tycoons for his liberal and friendly labor policy. Every time a baby leaves one of the three company-owned maternity hospitals, it carries tucked...
...Press never heard of the financier-philanthropist until he was past 60. And then it spotted him, a shy, parsimonious, white-bearded old gentleman, because he always rode the subway to his Manhattan office until he was 86. A few oldsters remembered that the First Citizen of Yonkers, N. Y. had served four consecutive terms in the House of Representatives a quarter century...
...contemporary of John Davison Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan and Russell Sage, John Andrus made his first dollar selling a mess of fresh-caught trout to Horace Greeley, who, angling near the Andrus farm in Pleasantville, N. Y., feared to return empty handed to the editorial offices of the New York Tribune. Like most of the shrewd men who reaped richly from the U. S. industrial expansion of the 19th Century, Andrus did not hotfoot for the front in the Civil War. He caught pneumonia drilling in the rain at Hartford, Conn., was promptly discharged from the Army...
...triumph, the Harvard team comes to the Yale meet with its record unblemished. It's discouraging to contemplate the regularity with which the Elis have destroyed a perfect season. But those in the know seem to think that Yale's domination is waning and point to the closer H-Y scores as an Indication that the Crimson will yet be the ruin of the Blue...