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Those men who received the bachelor of arts degrees as of the Class of 1931 were: R. P. Angier, Jr. of New Haven, Connecticut, I. B. Barnes, of Decatur, Illinois, R. J. Dodge, of Melrose High-land, G. T. Emmet, Jr., of New York City, Samuel Kunen, of Marlboro, E. G. Olim, of Dorchester, K. H. OIsson, of Cambridge, R. S. Warner, Jr., of Boston, and P. H. Watts of Morristown, New Jersey...
...Under Secretary of State which peels much of the gold leaf from governmental careers. Service to the United States seems much like labor in any business, full of detail, clerical precision, and hard work. There is little in his report which would inspire the lofty sentiment of Stephen Decatur in the undergraduates breast...
High score for silly talk was always given to the late great Stephen Decatur, whose Our-Country-Right-Or-Wrong speech runs in the Tribune's massed-head as its slogan. When Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Tribune, made his annual inspection visit, someone was told off to stand in front of the score board. Last week Publisher McCormick, inspecting his Paris branch, had other things to think of beside blackboards. He learned that his European paper had been wizened to its winter size (eight and twelve pages) all summer, that the competing U.S. daily, the Paris...
...High School Band Contest. Joliet, Ill. played best of the big schools, Hobart, Ind. of the middle-sized schools, West De Pere, Wis. of the small schools. Fortnight ago in Cleveland the best orchestras came from Cleveland's Glenville High School, East Chicago's Roosevelt High School, Decatur, Mich. High School...
...made president of the company. Although Penick & Ford was almost wrecked by the depression of 1921, 1930 saw its profits at $1,811,348 against 1929's $1,882,441. It is the country's third largest maker of corn products (second: A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., Decatur, Ill.). Famed are its Br'er Rabbit Molasses and Vermont Maid Maple Syrup. Son successfully faced Father, was not defeated...