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...preceptors, and constantly on the edge of trouble. With a winning disposition, brazen effrontery, an excellent memory and a gift of the gab, he naturally turned . . . to the Law. Starting in Westchester County he soon rose to be Assistant District Attorney. In his prosecution of Warden Thomas Mott Osborne of Sing Sing for mismanagement and immorality he showed that he understood his job, but overplayed his hand and lost the case. "Not a prosecutor at heart," soon he was in Manhattan, in a role that fitted him like a glove : defense lawyer in criminal cases. Partner McGee did the ground...
Neither ascetic nor erudite was Professor Lee's father, sinister "Old Tom" Lee, chief On Leong Tongsman and redoubtable "Mayor of Chinatown." Old Tom's wife was white. He shielded her and little Frank whom she reared an upright Baptist. Opium dens, eerie tunnels under Mott Street and stranglings in the dark are no childhood memories of Professor Lee, whose features and color resemble his mother...
Charles S. Mott...
Charles Stewart Mott leads all others by a margin so great as to stir the imagination. At the current market his 649,518 shares would be worth over $23,000,000, a vast sum for one man to have in one enterprise. Next in line come George Fisher Baker Jr. with over $6,000,000 worth of stock and Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. with $5,700,000. In most companies any man who owned over half a million shares of voting stock could be pointed out as a controlling factor, but not so in General Motors. The company...
...first day of the World's Conference, presided over by Chairman of the World's Committee Dr. John R. Mott, was enhanced by dedication ceremonies at a new 16-story Y. M. C. A. building in Akron, where the dirigible Akron was soon to be christened. Greetings from President Hoover were carried from Washington by plane, transferred to a blimp at the Akron Municipal airport, dropped by parachute to a group of "Y" members atop the new building. Nineteen runners, each sprinting two half-mile laps, carried more greetings to Akron in the form of a scroll from...