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...caught religion or become drunk. His employees would not have believed him. Yet when Charles Michael Schwab, board chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp., said those words last week at a Manhattan meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute, his auditors were not greatly startled. Though they knew "Charley" Schwab for the most unregenerate optimist in U. S. Industry, a notorious backslapper, hand shaker and well wisher, they also knew that what he said really did reflect the modern concept of business in dealing with critical economic upheavals and serious unemployment...
...Passing Eastern Point, Bluenose was five lengths ahead, hoisted along by her larger jib topsail. Thebaud pulled up a little after they had rounded the first mark; she was sailing at her best angle, with booms well inboard. Bluenose was still ahead at the third mark, but here Capt. Charley Johnson, sailing Thebaud because Capt. Ben Pine was sick, showed seamanship that baffled Capt. Angus Walters on Bluenose. With a windward tack ahead, Capt. Walters did what any sailor might do-he close-hauled to port. Thebaud came up astern and after trimming sheets stood off to westward...
...this time the newly-assigned member will have started his speech over again for the third time and is asking if anyone wants to hear his story. Everyone can see that he is quite rattled now and the room quiets down as the "speaker" continues. While the story progresses, Charley Sullivan, in whispers, circulates an order that no one laugh when the joke has been given. As the new man finishes, waiting for the applause which is not to come, everyone wants to know where the joke is. They urge him to continue, assuring the youth that they are still...
...teams got into the semifinals. John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison put out Berkeley Bell and Gregory Mangin, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. Then Doeg & Lott had to beat Tilden & Hunter, knowing that Hunter was playing much better and that Tilden, though he had a bad charley-horse in his hip, wanted moje than anything to get back this title which he has not held for three years. It turned out to be one of those see-saw matches that make tennis doubles the finest sport in the world to watch. Tilden did most of the work...
...Charley Smoot, Negro jockey, up on Rooney: the Westbury steeplechase at Belmont Park, L. I., taking the right rein in his teeth when the collarbone he had fractured the day before broke completely as he struggled to right his mount after a hard landing over the water jump in front of the stands...