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Banker Myron C. Taylor of U. S. Steel, wearing a stand-up collar which accentuated his dignity, diagnosed the plight of the industry with flocks of facts and figures. The U. S. coal business had appreciably increased its volume of output in the past 50 years (1878-1928), he found, but not by the whopping percentages of other fuels...
...buggy seat and exhort passing citizens-workers from the foundries, the machine shops, the glass factories, attendants at the State Insane Asylum, farmers from Stark County-to vote for him as Republican nominee for Mayor. With the fervor of an evangelist promising heaven, the old campaigner in his stand-up collar and wide-brimmed black hat promised Massillon a new municipal water works and reduced water rates if he were elected...
John Trainor '31, of the House committee, then announced rules governing the use of the squash courts, after which arrangements were made for the organization of stand-up lunches before football games, at which times members of the House will be able to entertain any guests they may have. After the Springfield game this Saturday there will be a tea in the Common Room, and if this proves successful it will be instituted as a regular feature following all the games...
Into the extremely select circle of U. S. corporations whose annual sales total one billion dollars, Swift & Co. will this year probably move, having done nearly a billion dollars a year for many a year. But big, energetic Louis F. Swift,* who works all day at a stand-up desk, gets as profits for his company only a small slice (less than 2%) of his gross...
...private and public. Shy to a painful degree, Mr. Mellon is nevertheless noted for his courage. His integrity, of course, is beyond question. Memorable illustrations of these two qualities were the swift ejection from the Treasury in 1922 of Elmer Dover, Ohio Gangster, and Secretary MelIon's long stand-up fights on the Internal Revenue Bureau with hard-hitting Senator Couzens of Michigan...