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...sometimes wish all the newspaper men I come in contact with were as well trained ... as the newspaper men in Washington. I still feel I am sufficiently of a public character that I do not like to give exclusive interviews to one newspaper. . . . Sometimes it is hard to be courteous to newspaper men. When I am courteous and talk to them at all, they want to print everything I say. If I tell them I have nothing to say, they then take some other method of finding a story...
...with an average of .404. Batter Herman's record is all the more remarkable in that he is practically a one-handed hitter. Just before bat touches ball he takes his right hand off the handle and is swinging only with his left arm at the moment of contact...
...National Bank of Commerce. Here he had ample opportunity to study the workings of a Big Bank of the merging type.* Recognizing the power & potency of the Big Bank, Mr. Howell realized also that its very bigness left room for a smaller bank operating on more of a personal contact basis. So, after long consideration, and with the assistance of the tycoons mentioned above, he got together $7,000,000 for a surplus and sold $7,000,000 capital stock and formed Commercial National. It was designed to cater to persons who still regarded $1,000,000 as a considerable...
Cousin Ramsay: "I say with all my heart that I associate myself absolutely with what the leader of the Opposition says about the great desirability of personal conference between those who bear the burden of state and those with whom they come in contact. But I will communicate to the honorable gentleman when I am in a position to make a definite statement as to what arrangements have been made...
...Association includes such names as Quincy Bent, vice president of Bethlehem Steel, Lawrence Aloysius Downs, President of Illinois Central, and Matthew Scott Sloan, president of New York Edison. Actual standardizing activities, however, will be carried on along the original engineering lines. The Association also announced a close contact with the U. S. Bureau of Standards, one of its directors being George Kimball Burgess, the Bureau of Standards head...