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Ransom Eli Olds is the only man in the U. S. who has two automobiles named after him. As early as 1887 he made in his family's machine shop a steamer which he tested on the streets of Lansing, Mich. before dawn so that he would not annoy...
His retirement lasted only a few months. While inspecting some Michigan peat deposits in 1904, Mr. Olds received a wire from a group of his fellow businessmen in Lansing, offering him the management and control of a new automobile company using his initials for a name. R. E. Olds thus...
Classes are held one evening each week. In the directors room of American State Savings Bank citizens wrestle with Political Science ("Business brains becoming active here, will build stronger political leadership") under Businessman John F. Brisbin, assisted by Clothing Merchant Louis May and Editorial Writer Glenn K. Stimson of the...
Dear to Founder Narvesen are his courses in religion ("Not proselyting but better understanding is the goal"). In the Municipal Courtroom at City Hall, Rev. John Gabriels expounds the Fundamentals of Catholicism. Rabbi David I. Cedarbaum presents The Jew Under Persecution from Pharaoh to Hitler in Central Temple House. High...
The big breezy founder of the People's University was born in Christiansand, Norway 44 years ago, son of a steamship captain. At 16 Try. Narvesen migrated to the U. S., bustled through Minneapolis' Augsburg College, joined up with the Y. M. C. A. He learned that education...