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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soon after the Hoover of Mexico was elected he received an invitation to visit the U. S. from Thomas W. Lament, Chairman of the International Committee of Bankers concerned with Mexico's unpaid foreign debt. At that time Señor Ortiz Rubio told correspondents he had wired Mr. Lament: "In case I am able to accept your invitation I will advise you in ample time." But, when he left Mexico, the President-Elect said nothing about the invitation, declared that he was going for his health to Johns Hopkins, and has denied repeatedly that...
When Dean Wilbur Lucius Cross of the Graduate School announced this fall that he would retire from the faculty at end of the year, a full professorship in the English department was left vacant. After 14 years of well-received teaching at Yale, popular Mr. French hoped that the fruits of his long labors might be rewarded. But another consideration arose last month. He was offered the Provostship of Avon Old Farms, a pretentious two-year-old experimental school at Avon, Conn...
...professorship, Mr. French felt that he must decline the school's offer. He went to the English department, forthrightly asked if he was to receive the position. As forthrightly the English board met, voted unfavorably four to three. Their fancy fell upon Assistant Professor Frederick Albert Pottle of the Graduate School, a mighty young authority on Johnsoniana...
Sixty-one indignant undergraduates published a signed manifesto in the Yale Daily News, crying: ''The withdrawal of Mr. French signifies, as well as an incalculable loss to the university, a demoralizing blow directed against those who stand out for the principles upon which he has based his work ... an irreparable injury to the principle of a 'finer, not a bigger Yale,' which we have been led to respect...
...small steel companies, chiefly in Ohio and Indiana, the company last year went through a rapid expansion program which included acquisition of Trumbull Steel Co. and Steel & Tubes, Inc. There were also continuous but as yet unfulfilled rumors of a merger with Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., in which Mr. Eaton is also interested. Republic Iron & Steel showed a net of $4,642,000 in 1928 and a net of $8,667,530 for the first nine months...