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...Publisher. The Vancouver Sun is the "personal" journal of its publisher, good-looking, nattily dressed Robert James Cromie. When he acquired the paper in 1917, he was 30, "Canada's youngest publisher," but no newsman. He had been secretary to General John William ("Jack") Stewart, railway builder, when the latter bought the Sun, then a morning paper. According to legend, General Stewart went to Europe to direct railway construction for the Allied armies, leaving Cromie with power-of-attorney to run the paper. From that status, Cromie emerged as owner. Nearly his first act was to absorb the conservative...
...posed collegiate Gothic building be named for "distinguished American industrial leaders of international vision;" that an oil painting of each be hung to remind the students of "his boyhood struggles, phenomenal success and subsequent leader ship." The six: President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel; Builder Ernest Robert Graham of Chicago (Graham, Anderson, Probst & White); Samuel Insull; Board Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City Bank; Chair man John D. Ryan of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; President Gerard Swope of General Electric...
...housed in a reproduction of George Washington's Mount Vernon home and in two wings, the plans of which were completed last week. A U. S. firm has been awarded the construction contract, an award surprising to persons who have not followed developments in the home-building fields. Builder of Mount Vernon for France will be Sears, Roebuck & Co., potent Chicago mail-order house...
Rare is the U. S. citizen unaware of these two books, in which a builder of outhouses discourses sententiously upon his craftsmanship. Thus Ex-Lax follows the modern trend of playing up a fad-of-the-moment in its advertising, also appeals to the same private sense of humor that carried The Specialist into best-selling fame (600,000 copies to date...
...Wood, famed speedboat builder and pilot: the first heat of the Harmsworth Trophy race at Detroit with Miss America IX at an average speed of 77.1 m. p. h. more than 2 m. p. h. slower than his time last year. His brother George Wood driving Miss America VIII finished ahead of their only challenger, Miss Marion Barbara Carstairs of England, whose Estelle IV and Estelle V she had been tuning up in the U. S. for two months...