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...Business. So may its executives tend to be dynamic, important personages-in contrast to the London draper who founded the Young Men's Christian Association in 1844. Nothing demonstrates the Y. M. C. A.'s world position today more than the calibre of Dr. John Raleigh Mott, identified with it ever since he became a student secretary in 1888 when he was graduated from Cornell. Dr. Mott resigned last November as "general secretary" of the International Committee (TIME, Nov. 16). Because many Y. M. C. A. leaders are bright, aggressive Northerners, some were surprised to learn last week...
Died. Jordan Lawrence Mott, 74, of Manhattan, onetime president of J. L. Mott Iron Works (now in receivership) ; of heart disease; in Nelson Harbor, Bahama Islands, B. W. L, on board the yacht of his friend Allison Armour...
...little more study of the problems of the world under world-known figures such as John R. Mott, Dr. T. Z. Koo, Kirby Page, and others, would make us citizens of more vision, perhaps, but of less ignorance and lack of interest. Daniel B. Dorman...
...unpopular. There have been more of them than ever this season. With more traditions than most such contests, N. Y. U. i). Georgia last week drew 65,000 spectators, ended much the same way as last year's game and by the same score (7 to 6) after Mott had run back the second-half kickoff for a touchdown and after Vernon ("Catfish") Smith had place-kicked the winning point and made the tackle, on fourth down with a few minutes to play, stopping N. Y. U.'s Bill Abee a foot from Georgia's goal line...
Resigning. Dr. John Raleigh Mott, 66; as general secretary of the International Committee of Y. M. C. A.'s of the U. S. and Canada, a position he has held since 1915; to devote more of his time to the World's Alliance of Y. M. C. A.'s, of which he has been president since 1926, and the International Missionary Council (national councils in some 35 countries) of which he is chairman...