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...oversee and coordinate the letting of important contracts for Army-Navy equipment. For assistance, which he will sorely need, Mr. Knudsen last week drafted Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.'s able President John David Biggers, one of the few industrialists in whom Franklin Roosevelt has displayed confidence. Another recruit was handsome Publicityman Bob Horton, who duly introduced himself to Mr. Knudsen...
...energetic Stephen Gallatti, assistant in the last war to Founder A. Piatt Andrew, to resume business. They pitched in, raised funds to send off 38 men, 6 ¾-ton Chevrolet trucks for duty in France, although only 20 ambulances are in the field so far. Their most prominent recruit to date: Cinemactor Robert Montgomery, who last week joined...
...Bible and a dictionary. Under the hornbeam tree he preached his first faltering homily. To the same tree he returned four years ago, a falterer no longer, to preach to 12,000 people. By that time, he estimated, 40,000,000 had heard him-as a Salvation Army recruit under William Booth, a Y. M. C. A. man during World War I, a barnstorming trouper on many a world tour. Countless souls he had won for Jesus. One he remembers well. As he knelt with his convert and asked him, searchingly: "Arthur, what's it mean?", "Gypsy...
Although the personnel of the project is already quite large, the Workshop is holding a meeting at 7:30 o'clock on Monday, in the organization's offices at 46 Holyoke Street, to recruit new members, preferably from the Sophomores and Freshmen classes, although others are not excluded...
...Archduke Robert, 24, second son of the late Austrian Kaiser Karl, was sent from Belgium to Paris by his brother Archduke Otto, 26, the Habsburg Pretender, with an offer to recruit a full division of Austrian refugees and send them to fight on the Western Front if Britain and France will announce as one of their war aims "restoration of Austria as an inde pendent State." Already in France with a similar proposal was Austria's onetime Heimwehr troop leader and Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime friend of Adolf Hitler, who recently ordered confiscated...