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...Worcester-born, a graduate of Holy Cross College and Harvard Law, Frank Dowd Comerford of Boston is called biggest and brightest of New England's younger utilities tycoons. President of New England Power Association, which controls a string of 50 gas and electric companies, he was designated spokesman for the industry when Governor Curley launched his drive against Massachusetts utility rates few weeks ago. Last week Utilitarian Comerford took over another big job when he was elected president of independent Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston, New England's largest single operating electric utility. He will remain with...
...present sophomores and to all their successors will be the familiar U. S. method of getting a college degree by accumulating credits for courses passed. Future Yalemen must take and pass the same annual course examinations which Yalemen take now. But planted squarely at the end of that string of hurdles will be a higher hurdle. Beginning in May 1937, each student will sit down, at the end of his senior year, to lengthy departmental examinations. He will be quizzed on all the work he has done in his field, either in courses or independently. It will make no difference...
...Last autumn the American Institute of Food Distribution estimated that the 1934 tomato pack would be up some 20%, the corn pack 20%, the pea pack 15%, the string bean pack 9%. The Alaska salmon pack was the biggest on record. All during summer and autumn Drought dropped into the can-makers' laps orders for hundreds of millions of cans for the meat which the Government was tinning for the unemployed. Last week Continental Can Co. announced that 1934 had been the best year in history, with profits of $10,707,000 against...
...Howell report would have made a small splash indeed in the news if President Roosevelt had not seen fit to slap one of its recommendations down with a curt "No" and to tie a long policy string to another. The investigators thought it would be a good thing to set up a semi-permanent Air Commerce Commission with broad powers over U. S. civil aviation including jurisdiction over rates. Said the President: "In this recommendation I am unable to concur. ... At a later date I shall ask the Congress for general legislation centralizing the supervision of air and water...
...Springfield, Mass, last week the Yale swimming team won its 13 2nd consecutive dual meet, against Springfield College, 61 points to 16. Two nights later the team stretched its string to 133, against College of the City of New York. In New York, Yale swimmers were first in every event, second in four. In the 440-yd. swim, Norris Hoyt of Yale set a pool record...