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Among those Atchison directors are such bishops of U. S. finance as: William Benson Storey, President of the Atchison; Edward Julius Berwind, Manhattan holder of coal, shipping and transportation enterprises; William Chapman Potter, President of the Guaranty Trust of Manhattan; Arthur Twining Hadley, President Emeritus of Yale; Charles Steele, Morgan partner; Henry Smith Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation since 1906; and Myron Charles Taylor, Chairman of U. S. Steel's finance committee...
Last week President William Benson Storey of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway Co., Chairman of the Committee on Uniform Express Contracts of American Railway Executives, announced flatly: "We are going to consider within the next week at a meeting in New York whether to go further with the plan or not." The "plan" is for the railroads to assume the $300,000,000 to $400,000,000 annual business of the American Railway Express Company. Later, President Storey declared, rather to the surprise of railroad executives generally, that he had the approval of railroads carrying...
...being a Dr. Straton, he is not sanguine in the opinion of one school of adult commentators, that his contemporaries, with all their frankness and freedom, are still as strongly supporting the moral conventions. They are not, even if they have no spokesman to admit it. The precocious Miss Benson has discussed the subject in Vanity Fair, but she really is too young. Without being accused of ventriloquism, Judge Ben Lindsay has drawn startling statements from young Cleveland malefactors, and wielded them for his purpose. But the educated youth, fearing the sensationalism that dogs his step, has chosen...
...Harvard delegates to last week's meeting, and H. W. Clark '23 there were present Commander Ingraham of the United States Naval Academy Lou Young, and William Hollenback, of Pennsylvania, Jack Cates of Yale, Biff Jones of the United States Military Academy, Neil Flemming of Penn State, Reynolds Benson of Columbia, W. W. Roper of Princeton, Harry Heneage of Dartmouth, D. O. McLaughry of Brown, and G. B. Thurston of Syracuse...
...many million people saw the first appearance of the new Ford car last week, it is impossible to estimate. In Detroit Henry Ford, his son Edsel and grandsons Henry II and Benson examined the public display before the great Convention Hall's doors were opened to let 100,000 people in. Manhattan crowds were greater. Police were obliged to regulate the queues in other "key cities," notably Kansas City, Cincinnati, Norfolk, Omaha, Boston, St. Louis, Richmond, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Atlanta. In England the railroads ran excursion trains to the London exhibition. Englishmen paid...