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With a full slate of faculty members and alumni as guest speakers, the Harvard Memorial Society will hold its annual banquet in the Chambers of the Society of Fellows in Eliot House at 7 o'clock Tuesday night...
Some coal users shifted to oil. Anthracite operators not strike bound, jumped production 49%, despite a price rise of 15? per ton. But the 40,000,000-ton pile of bituminous was burned down to some 20 to 25,000,000 tons, leaving coal's statistical slate clean...
...White announced a 1938 loss of $1,637,000). Mr. Flatto declared he had proxies representing 250,000 shares and did not like the present management. After a stormy session (TIME, April 24), the meeting adjourned while the proxies were counted. Last week President White announced that the management slate received 531,812 votes, the Flatto opposition...
...that with which railroads are familiar: revenues down and costs up, largely for reasons beyond the management's control (see below). But Arthur Flatto believed that the management had "failed to function properly in producing profits," three months ago started rounding up proxies to oppose the management slate. No mere corporate troublemaker, he spent $4,450 out of his own pocket convincing other dissatisfied shareholders that they were entitled to minority representation "just like the Supreme Court." This proposition Messrs. Carlton and White dismissed, arguing that under Western Union's bylaws minority representation would be impossible...
...basis of incomplete returns, Dunster House seems well on the way towards a new all-time record for broken windows with 12 panes shattered by snowballs within the last week. Lowell is second with six fractured transparencies. Eliot occupies the cellar position as usual with a clean slate...