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...also able, active. Mr. Chanin was born in the U. S. of Russian parents who, however, took him back to Russia, then brought him back again, this time no more to roam. His father was a painter-plasterer in Brooklyn. Irwin also painted, plastered by day, went to Cooper Institute by night, won a prize for designing a bridge and got an engineering job in subway construction. During the War he helped build speedily erected laboratories for making poison gas, saw the advantages of speedy construction...
Dwellers in Cincinnati's Millcreek Valley district are well aware of the proximity of Proctor & Gamble Co.'s plant?particularly when the wind blows in their direction. Makers of long-famed Ivory and new-famed Camay soaps and of Crisco shortening, Procter & Gamble Co. is great Cincinnati industry, William Cooper Procter is great Cincinnati tycoon. Last week, however, Procter and Gamble showed a trace of Manhattan influence. To J. P. Morgan & Co. for $10,000,000 went 150,000 shares of P. & G. stock and an option on 100,000 more at $80. Assuming use of the option, the house...
Keynote Speech. Dr. William John Cooper, U. S. Commissioner of Education, keynoted. Avoiding mention of Prohibition he pleaded for an undogmatic reorganizing of U. S. education, pointed to the "inevitable responsibilities which progress imposes upon education." He suggested more experimental education, commended the Experimental College at Wisconsin, the house-plan at Harvard, the segregated Freshman plan at Yale, the year-abroad-for-Romance-language-students at Smith, the Antioch plan of combining in five-or-ten-week shifts study and business or professional work. Lastly he pleaded for "individuality in a world steadily being leveled by standardization...
Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware, Ohio) Myers Young Cooper, Governor of Ohio LL.D...
...century-old real estate dream came true last week in Baltimore. Back in 1828 Peter Cooper, Manhattan financier and philanthropist, of Cooper Union fame, and a group of Baltimore businessmen organized Canton Co., purchased Canton-a strip of land along the Baltimore water front for $105,000. It was thought at that time that the then-young Baltimore & Ohio R. R. would want the Canton district for a Baltimore freight terminal. No purchase was made, however, and for many years Canton remained comparatively undeveloped, its chief industries being cockfighting and politics. Shortly before the Civil War, Canton did become prominent...