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Passing its hurried 30 years of life, the Automotive Industry has been the most aggressive revolutionist in a world of increasing Industrial Revolution. So fast has been its pace that 100 automobile companies have started and quit. But contrary to glib predictions, there have been few casualties since 1929. The cash reserves of good years have been a bulwark against catastrophe...
...present staff was at the birth. He is Associate Editor Edward Sandford Martin, who celebrated his 77th birthday two days before the magazine's Golden Jubilee. E. S. Martin was Life's first editor, and a part owner but was stricken with malaria and had to quit after the first six months. Three or four years later he resumed work as editorial writer, wrote regularly for the next 40 years until Editor Norman Hume Anthony, now of Ballyhoo, took the editorship of Life in 1929 for a brief tenure. Lloyd George had called E. S. Martin "the greatest...
...call their Stock Exchange loans, Chase expanded its loans $373,000,000. It was National City Bank's Charles Edwin Mitchell, a rampant, bull, who became the popular scapegoat of the Crash with his insistence that conditions were fundamentally sound. Rumors that Banker Mitchell was about to quit National City persisted for a year afterward, then faded out. Currently he is in the ascendant, dictating economy to Tammany Hall. Banker Wiggin's troubles came...
Sirs: TIME Dec. 5, regarding Col. E. A. Deeds and National Cash Register: "It was homecoming for Col. Deeds, for he got his start as a young engineer in N. C. R. . . ." "Farm-born Col. Deeds quit N. C. R. with his good friend Charles Franklin Kettering to develop Delco. . . ." No mention is made (as has been made in most similar TIME accounts) of Deeds's formal education. The impression is strong that he grew up in industry untutored. Not so! Denison '97, Deeds has so long been known for his Denison deeds that in Ohio...
...suite of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald in Geneva's swank Hotel Beau Rivage. Cheerful Host MacDonald and guests representing the U. S., France, Germany and Italy, had something to celebrate. They had reached a formula for bringing Germany back into the Disarmament Conference, which the Fatherland quit last September, and they had signed a joint three-point declaration which all agreed was "extremely important...