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...include the following: Roy P. Baker, Jr. '39, Vincent R. Balley '40. David S. Burt '40, Stewart M. Dall '38, Francis G. Eaton '38, Richard F. Foss '40, Phillips Hallowell '40, David G. Halstead '40, John C. Jones '39, W. Kimhall, Jr. '38, Henry W. Locke '38, August R. Mayer '40, James M. E. Minter '40, Samuel F. Peirce '40, George Shortledge '40, Stephen E. Stanton '38, William W. Waters '37, and Arnold H. Williams...
Although there are no official ratings among the Yardlings, five of them enter with records with entitle them to special mention. These include David S. Burt and Chester A. Legg, both of Exeter Academy, John G. Palfrey Jr. of Milton Academy, Lengdon Gilkey, of Asheville School, and Walter Muther, of Rivers School...
...first Good Humor was concocted in 1920, the year that "Mike" Meehan moved up from the New York Curb Exchange to the New York Stock Exchange where he soon began riding Radio from $25 a share to a high of $549. Good Humor's creator was Harry B. Burt, a Cleveland candymaker, who took the name from one of his earlier creations, a clear candy sucker. Chocolate-coated ice cream was already the province of Eskimo Pie. But ice-cream-on-a-stick was new, patentable...
...first October stock-market crash in 1929, Good Humors were being sold in Cleveland and Chicago by a syndicate which bought out Inventor Burt's widow. On the day after the crash Speculator Meehan took $500,000 out of the market, bought into the syndicate...
With all this on his mind, Burt Denman got together in Chicago's Union League Club last July with onetime (1929-33) Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde, President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & North Western Lines, President Troy W. Appleby of Ohio National Life Insurance Co., Utility Lobbyist Hugh Stewart Magill, Banker Henry Samuel Henschen, and some 30 others. Good Methodists all, they were thoroughly alarmed over Methodism's leftward trend. They prepared a statement deploring substitution of "economic and social systems for the Christian ideal of individual responsibility and freedom of choice...