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...Felix Ranlett...
Died. Charles Ranlett Flint, 84, retired industrial promoter, international agent, sportsman; of arteriosclerosis, after two years' illness; in Washington. Son of a New England clipper fleet owner, he fitted out warships for Brazilian revolutionists; sold torpedo boats and submarines to Russia, a cruiser to Japan; negotiated the Wright Brothers' first sales of airplanes abroad. He gathered a fortune reputed to be $100,000,000, had a hand in forming so many U. S. corporations that newspapers christened him "Father of Trusts...
...Charles Ranlett Flint was born in Thomaston, Me., in 1850. His people had always been shippers; he, looking-for his first job, went to "every shipping office in Manhattan," but no one would hire him. Thereupon he wrote himself a reference, had cards made which declared him to be an. expert dock-clerk, entered Grace & Co., shippers. Quickly he rose, became rich in a time phenomenally short even for that era of expansion. He pounced upon every new idea, helped, with his own funds, to develop the automobile, the submarine, the airplane, the dynamite- gun. Growth, he believed...
Dennison House: J. C. H. Bonbright '25, S. N. Brown '24, G. D. Dorman '25, Robert Emerson '25, J. P. Ludlam '25, S. W. Livermore '24, Ranlett Miner '25, W. M. Newman '25, H. B. Noyes '24, Louis Salano '24, J. B. Squier...
...months' competition. Gardner Cowles Jr. of Des Moines, la., has been appointed manager of the Freshman football team. The other 1925 managerial positions have been filled as follows: assistant manager, Philip Hunter Robb of Winchester; second assistant manager, William Henry Gratwick of Buffalo, N. Y.; Gore Hall manager, Ranlett Miner of Rochester, N. Y.,; Smith Hall manager, Walter Scott Blanchard of Concord; Standish Hall manager, James Bogert Tailor of New York City...