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After the reporters, finished with their questions, had bolted for the door (see PRESS) the President went directly to his office, took a pencil and memorandum pad and went to work again on the statement he would make to the people. At noon he had a swim, half an hour's rest, lunch, and was back in his office at 2:30, only to find that it was overrun by radio and television technicians setting up for the speech that night. He took his note pad and a handful of pencils into the Cabinet Room and sat alone...
...gold-fish bowl, it is easy for the casual undergraduate to grow as indifferent to the changes within his Cambridge world as to development without. Perhaps, therefore, our readers will pardon the CRIMSON editors' annual urge to review the past year's developments before they depart from their note-pad pinnacle for more academic file cards. Our only conclusion at such close range can be that it has been a good year for historians and for sorcerers, and that it has been a year of expansion...
...Padded Profits? McGinnis claimed that his economies resulted in a $9,275,000 profit for eleven months of 1955, almost double the 1954 net. But Frederic ("Buck") Dumaine Jr., whom McGinnis ousted as president in 1954, charged that McGinnis had used cash reserves and in come from subsidiaries, e.g., The Connecticut Co., to pad railroad earnings. Said Dumaine: "They must have lost $7,000,000 running the railroad 20 months...
...always is the embezzler an underling trying to pad out a slim paycheck. When the president of Chicago's MidAmerican Steel Warehouse saw his profits slumping deeper and deeper, he decided to make one final effort to save his business. To bring in new working capital he took more than $100,000 and went on a gambling expedition to Las Vegas. MidAmerican went bankrupt anyway...
...Little Giant." E. H. (for Edward Henry) Harriman, the son of an impecunious Episcopal clergyman, went to work at 14 as a $5-a-week pad-shover (messenger-clerk) in Wall Street. A brilliant lad with a phenomenal memory, he studied the market, watched the rich and great of the Street in their buying. Soon he began to buy and win. At 18 he was a junior partner in an uncle's firm; in 1870, when he was 22, he had his own firm and a seat on the Exchange. Eventually, he became the "Little Giant" of Wall Street...