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Great men are drawn to greater. As the luncheon got under way, many a potent executive's eye wandered to George Bruce Cortelyou, former Secretary of the Treasury (1907-09), President of the Consolidated Gas Co. of New York; and Owen Young, one of the U. S. investigators of the German Budget, and Chairman of the board of both the General Electric Co. and the Radio Corporation of America. Both of these gentlemen were seated prominently at the speaker's table. While waiting for them to speak, the picturesque career of handsome, well-groomed Mr. Cortelyou was envisioned by many...
...remembers much, and Roosevelt's Cabinet? how diverse have been their fates. One sits as Chief Justice; another, Elihu Root, is dean of U. S. statecraft; another, Truman Handy Newberry, has had most discomforting experiences with the Senate to which he aspired; two others, James R. Garfield and George Bruce Cortelyou have retired to private life. But John Hay, Charles J. Bonaparte, Paul Morton, are gone. Swiftly the new order becomes the old, and the old becomes a memory...
...Bruce Bliven, who addressed the Old South Meeting Forum on Saturday, will speak before the Liberal Club at 1.30 o'clock this afternoon on "The Ethics of Journalism...
...Heard a debate between Senators Edge and Bruce (wet) and Senators Willis and McKellar (dry) concerning national prohibition, whether its effect was good...
...Wilcox Anthony, Andover; Charles Francis Ayers, Jr., Northeastern Preparatory School, Boston; Talbot Baker, Milton Academy; Nathan Spencer Barnes, Thacher School, Ojai Valley, Cal.;. Philip Barbour Bennett, Riverdale Country School, Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y.; Harold Berliner, Boston Latin School; Clarence Edwin Brown, Cambridge High and Latin School; Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Jr., Cambridge High and Latin School; Dean Chamberlin, Exeter; Grover Arvel Chenoweth, Boston Latin School; Albert Goodwill Churchill, Browne and Nichols School; Henry Ives Cobb, 3d., Groton...