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During the past several years, a number of county and State societies have elected "executive secretaries" for long tenure, to steer the societies through troublous times. Before leaving office last December, the Comitia Minora, the board of directors of the New York County Society, appointed as pilot Dr. Benjamin Wallace Hamilton, a veteran factotum...
Without consulting the membership, the officers created a new position for Dr. Hamilton, signed a five-year contract raising his annual salary from $6,000 to $12,000. But Comitia Member George Baehr of Mt. Sinai Hospital, balking at this $60,000 pledge, let the cat out of the bag. (Most Manhattan doctors seldom see $12,000 a year...
Last week, when the Society met to install its new officers, wigs were on the green. Leader of the opposition was Cardiologist Ernst Philip Boas of Columbia, a newly elected member of the Comitia. Since the new position of executive secretary, said Dr. Boas, had not been approved by the membership, according to Society rules, it was illegal. If one penny was paid Dr. Hamilton, he said, Manhattan Lawyers Root, Clark, Buckner and Ballantine would raise legal hell...
Finally the members hoarsely decided on a secret ballot. Result: 303 upheld the action of the Comitia, 488 repudiated it. Although this action of the membership could not legally break the contract, it seemed clear last week that the rank & file had won. After a hasty conference, the retiring president spread the word that Dr. Hamilton would resign...
...turn the classes into a sort of Comitia Tributa to vote on the said proposition? Why not start the university club on a basis that shall include athletics? Certainly here is a motive for mass meetings of the members at frequent intervals, I mean, to discuss, and what is more, vote upon the management of the various teams and nines and crews. The interest in athletics would be increased, I would not wonder if subscriptions - to use a money-market term - should become easier. A feeling of personal interest in the teams would be fostered, and position...
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