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...Fellowship was founded in 1923 by the gift of $100,000 from the family of the late Jacob Emanuel Wertheim '96 for the support of original research in the field of industrial cooperation. The award will be made by the President and Fellows of Harvard University on the recommendation of the Committee, and the Committee has the right to take the initiative in seeking out candidates...
...recent meeting of the Law Review Board held at the Colonial Club, Henry Jacob Friendly 2L. of Elmira, N. Y., was elected president for next year. Friendly is a Harvard graduate of the class of '23. While at the College he won the Sheldon Travelling Scholarship and after graduation studied abroad for a year. At the Law School he led his class last year. The treasurer elected for next year is Lemire Thomas Rice 2L. of Escanaba, Mich., a graduate of the University of Michigan...
...practices. He could brook no inter-organization authority competing with his own. When a man grew indispensable to N. C. R. Mr. Patterson fired him. Many present high business executives were trained in his N. C. R. school for salesmen: President Henry Theobald of the Toledo Scale Co., President Jacob Oswald of the Rotospeed Co., President Thomas J. Watson of the International Business Machine Corp., President Alvan Macauley of the Packard Motor Co., President Edward S. Jordan of the Jordan Motor Car Co., President C. F. Kettering of the Dayton Engineering Laboratories...
...Talleys looked around for another teacher, chose Ottley Cranston, who with Mrs. Cranston directs the Kansas City Civic Opera Company. Marion studied the roles of Mignon and Arline in the Bohemian Girl, sang them in May, 1922 (aged 15), Kansas City pricked up its ears. Jacob A. Harzfeld and John T. Harding did more than prick up their ears. They set about overcoming the Talley difficulty, which was lack of funds, arranged a series of concerts that netted $10,000, arranged through Otto Kahn an audition with the Metropolitan Opera authorities in November, 1922. There followed months of study...
...Died. Jacob Haish, 99, "inventor of barbed wire," possibly the oldest bank president in the U. S. (Haish State, De Kalb, Ill.), millionaire; at De Kalb, of pneumonia...