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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elected. John Grinnell Wetmore Husted, 34. erstwhile of Peekskill, N. Y.; to be a partner in Brown Shipley & Co. of London (first U. S. partner in that conservative house's history). His brother, James William Husted Jr., 35, was last week made a partner in Secretary of State Stimson's Manhattan law firm (Winthrop, Stimson & Aldrich...
Prophets. In 1928 Walter P. Chrysler conservatively predicted that 1929 production would be 4,750,000, exports 1,000,000 (TIME, Jan. 7, 1929). For 1930 Mr. Chrysler named no figures, spoke about a return to "normal conditions" and "satisfactory" production. General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloane Jr. said that he saw eventual stabilization at 5,500,000 cars a year, was careful to stress the fact that his company has very diversified manufacturing interests. Standard Statistics in a five-year forecast of the industry last week predicted a future annual production of 5,200,000 cars, 500,000 less...
Reginald Weir and Gerald Norman Jr. did not play in last week's national junior indoor tennis championship. Their applications were rejected without explanation by U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. That made the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People write a protest: "Unfair, unsportsmanlike . . .calculated to degrade the sport . . . spirit of caste and class snobbery. ..." Meanwhile, in a Manhattan armory the best white tennis players between 16 and 18 played for the championship, hitting the ball so that the shots boomed like explosions. Boys under 16 played for the boy's title, tapping their shots back...
Charles Devens '32, of Boston, Eugene Edwin Record '32, of Brookline, and James Barr Ames '32, of Wayland, have been elected Sophomore class officers, according to an announcement made yesterday by W. B. Wood Jr...
...vote for the presidency C. C. Cunningham '32 was second. Record won the vice-presidency by an overwhelming majority. There were four close contestants for the Secretaryship. D. B. Dorman '32, R. N. Clark Jr. '32, and W. J. Holland '32 each received votes totalling to within six votes of Ames' tally. The total number of votes cast was 481, which is 56 per cent of the class enrollment...