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Last week George Bruce Cortelyou, aged, white-thatched president of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York, summoned his trustees to the most important meeting in his business career. Up for vote was a new pension plan by which all employes and executives were to retire at 70. Among those to go would be President Cortelyou, nearly 73. Long did the trustees ponder the 26 years of his presidency before casting their votes: he had lifted the company's assets from $332,000,000 in 1909 to $1,360,000,000 in 1934; he had doubled the sale...
...crowded White Russian colony, gazed out of the window to see why her dog barked. She saw a shadowy figure kindling a fire against the frame walls of the old Russian Orthodox Church where she worshipped each Sunday. Russian patrons raced out of the café, pounced upon Robert Bruce Driscoll...
Among the Harvard faculty members who have lent their support to the project are Bruce C. Hopper, assistant professor of Government, Max A. Shepard, instructor in Government, William P. Maddox, instructor in Government, Edward S. Mason, associate professor of Economics, Gordon W. Allport '19, associate professor of Psychology, Payson S. Wild, instructor in Government, William J. Bender '27, assistant dean, and Sarell E. Gleason, Jr. '27, instructor in History...
...BRUCE BIRCH Springfield, Ohio...
...Benjamin Barr Lindsey toured the land debating it, polite audiences were accustomed to vote the Denver judge victor over whoever happened to be his adversary. But not in Philadelphia. There, balloting to choose a local figure to debate with Judge Lindsey, 5,000 people overwhelmingly picked Rev. Dr. Robert Bruce Whyte, pastor of Philadelphia's biggest church, First Presbyterian. After the debate, the Philadelphians owlishly upheld their choice, handed Ben Lindsey the first defeat he ever experienced...