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...industry's history, was levied against its six largest companies-U.S. Steel, Bethlehem, Republic, Armco, National and Jones & Laughlin-as well as Wheeling Steel and National's Great Lakes Steel subsidiary. The judge also allowed no contest pleas by the only two individuals indicted: James P. Barton, 62, U.S. Steel's assistant general manager of administrative service, and William J. Stephens, 58, hard-selling president of Jones & Laughlin. Stephens, who worked for rival Bethlehem as an assistant vice president at the time covered by the indictment, is the highest U.S. executive ever singled out by such...
Clearly on'the way out are the assorted discounts, donations and deals that ministers once relied upon to flesh out the modest salary that went with a pulpit call. In 1887, for example, the Rev. William E. Barton was offered $400 a year to serve as pastor of the Congregational Church in Litchfield, Ohio. As Barton noted in his autobiography: "The little congregation was generous according to its means." Every year there was a donation party, and the proceeds were given to the pastor. Sometimes the families in the congregation brought packages of food instead of money...
Cable Cars Free. Barton had other ways of stretching his income. Like most other 19th century clergymen, he could travel free on the railroads while on church business and got reduced rates at hotels. Many communities developed their own local way of helping out the men, and the women, of the cloth. San Francisco, grateful for the heroic acts of the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity during the 1906 earthquake, decided that they could forever ride free on the cable cars-and they do to this day. For that matter, the none-too-numerous clergymen who still take trains travel...
...capacity crowd of 4500 fans jammed Cornell's Barton Hall and watched awestruck as the powerful Crimson invaders scored solidly in every event except the pole vault and finished with 65 points, six more than Yale's record total in 1961. Navy managed 35 points to gain second place. Army, with 30, was third...
...After bringing up the rear on the first trip around the 220-yard Barton Hall oval, Hewlett moved up fast on the second lap and too over the lead at the quarter-mile mark. He toyed with Navy's Greg Williams for the next mile and won going away...