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...Theodore Morrison: Fri. 2.30-3.30 o'clock...
...souvenir booklet issued in 1912 during the festivities that marked the opening of the so-called "Key West Extension," the 128-mile over-water rail route to the southernmost city in the U. S. It was dedicated, as was virtually everything else on that occasion, to Henry Morrison Flagler, most brilliant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil partners. Having lavished his brains and his oil wealth on a Florida railroad and Florida hotels, Founder Flagler proposed to open up Cuba and the Caribbean. With a terminal only 92 miles from Havana by car ferry, the Key West Extension...
...Sodality last night new officers, who will assume their duties immediately, were elected. They were: President: Lemuel B. Hunter '37, of Wellesley; Vice, President. Frederick P. Glike '37 of Meriden. Conn.; Treasurer, Robert F. Dine '37 of Allston; Secretary, Robert W. Snyder '38 of Easton, Paf; Manager, James L. Morrison '38 of Groton, Conn. Arthur Steinberg '38 was elected to membership in the Sodaltty...
Shortest term (two years) went to Ralph Waldo Morrison, Texan utilitarian, whom President Roosevelt sent to the London Economic Conference in 1933. He is a close friend of Vice President Garner, a generous contributor to the National Democratic Committee's campaign funds. A Missourian by birth, he spent his youth in South America, selling railroad equipment and adding machines. Later he was promoted and operated a tramp steamship line, finally became interested in Texas power companies. The system he built up was shrewdly sold to Samuel Insull before 1929. Today he owns hotels, ice companies, Mexican power companies, does...
...appointees: Joseph A. Broderick. onetime New York State superintendent of banks; Ronald Ransom, executive vice president of Fulton National Bank of Atlanta; John K. McKee, onetime receiver for National banks in Ohio and Pennsylvania, for the last two and one half years chief examiner for RFC; Ralph W. Morrison. Texas Hydro-electric tycoon, who in 1933 was one of the U. S. delegates to the World Monetary & Economic Conference at London...