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...York-born John Mitty, onetime bishop of Salt Lake City, succeeds San Francisco's well-beloved Archbishop Joseph Hanna whom he assisted as coadjutor for three years before the ailing archbishop retired (TIME, March 18). Businesslike Archbishop Mitty's first act last week was to demonstrate his concern for training priests. He announced he would devote a purse given him by his clergy to repairing St. Patrick's Seminary...
Northern Ireland reacted with increasing bitterness to New York-born Southerner de Valera (his father was a Spaniard...
Through its protagonists the censorship conflict threw into relief two phases of western culture-the Old West, personified by Senator Smoot, Utah-born. Mormon-educated, moral, righteous; and the New West, personified by Senator Cutting, New York-born, Harvard-educated, "sophisti-cated," broadminded...
United Hotels Co. Twenty-five hotels owned, 38 controlled, comprise the U. S., Canadian and West Indian hotels in the United Hotels Co. system. Head of United is New York-born Frank A. Dudley, versatile organizer. He left his Niagara Falls law office to serve in the New York State Legislature. He organized the Buffalo & Niagara Falls Railway. He organized the Electric City Bank, then went to the Pacific Coast and organized the North Coast R. R. An even more famed organizer, the late great Harriman, offered him a job, but, "No," said he, "I don't care much...
Chicago obligingly furnished a list. It pointed to the offices of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co., where sat Minnesota-born Eugene Morgan Stevens, golfer, fisherman, bond expert, and New York-born Frederick Tudor Haskell, trained in Chicago banking for 55 years. It pointed to the "biggest" Continental & Commercial National Bank with its Brothers Reynolds, Arthur of the potent Armour meatpacking interests, and, George McClelland, who politely declined in 1909 to be Taft's Secretary of the Treasury. It pointed to big but smaller banks, to the Chicago Trust Co., from whose roster of vice presidents the U. S. Chamber...