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Said David Allen, who resigned the day he was accused: "In my position I am always a target for heartless aspiring men and women seeking to entrap me or frame me. . . . This is the first time in 20 years they have progressed so far as to have me formally accused...
...final spasm in a year-long nightmare. Mr. Lee, who pulled profits out of Armour last year for the first time since 1930, tried to reorganize the packing company last summer but various stockholder groups blocked him at a rowdy meeting in August. Salaries next became the target for the protective committee's publicity. Months of wrangling over a new board revealed that Frederick Henry Prince, crusty septuagenarian banker of Boston, had become Armour's biggest individual stockholder. Last January another rowdy stockholders' meeting produced eight new directors and a reconstituted finance committee of which Mr. Prince...
...neat dresser. His addresses, delivered in falsetto, are usually admonitory, pedagogical. When his party was in power, he used to wear a wide political smile. Now an annoyed frown is usually to be seen behind his pince nez. His lack of humor makes him a perennial target for opposition wags. No one questions his sincerity and within his own ranks he is respected for his devotion to his party. He is a devout Methodist, a 33rd Degree Mason, and the author of fresh-water textbooks on history, physiology, politics, civics. Outside Congress: His wife, Eva C. Thomas, died...
Though generalizations often miss the mark, most of Brooks's charge gets home on this target: "Our thinking class quickly reaches middle age, and, after a somewhat prolonged period during which it seems to be incapable of assimilating any fresh experiences, it begins to decay. The rest of our people meanwhile never even grow up. For if our old men of thought come to a standstill at middle age, our old men of action, as one sees them in offices, in the streets, in public positions, everywhere! are typically not old men at all but old boys. . . . In short...
...Boston Navy Yard on the destroyer Manley June 20 for the annual training cruise in company with the ships of the Yale and Georgia Tech units. The unit will stop over at New London for the boat race June 22, proceed to southern waters for ship handling and target practice exercise and return to Boston July...