1923
It seems you always have to listen to a speech to get a medal. But it can't be too bad to hear what Maj. Gen. Robert Douglas Jr. told Lt. Col. Jim Landauer when awarding Jim the Legion of Merit at Fort Slocum, New Rochelle, N. Y., recently. Jim was in the Army for three and a half years as Lt. Col. at the 88th Cadet Center at San Antonio, Texas, where (in the words of Gen. Douglas) he "integrated eleven schools and formed four foreign training organizations for Turkish, Brazilian, Mexican and Chinese cadets." Jim's citation goes on to say that he "organized and administered the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center and was highly instrumental in the efficient accomplishment of the mission of the base."
Fort Slocum being right in our own backyard, we'd certainly have been on hand at the dock to get first look at that medal if we'd known about it in time, Jim. And some more congratulations on that big deal of yours that made front page of the Real Estate section of the New York Herald-Tribune in February.
In case you've been wondering who started all this portal-to-portal pay excitement, it's none other than our own Ted Lamb. The Associated Press item, datelihed Toledo, Ohio, says in part, "Lamb obtained from the U. S. Supreme Court a decision that employers must pay for all substantial time a worker spends at his site of work at an employer's request." This ruling was handed down on the nowfamous Mt. Clemens Pottery case in which Ted represented the workers. At the end of December, Ted was warning the unions not to invite restrictive legislation by specifying "fabulous and reckless" amounts in their portal-to-portal pay suits. As for us, we're out for pillow-to-pillow pay on the theory that we'd arise at 10 instead of 7 a.m. and retire at 12 instead of 11 p.m. if we were not employed; ergo the difference is on the boss. Seriously, the Mt. Clemens case sounds reasonable, as Ted discovered in the company records a request to employees that they be on the job 14 minutes ahead of official starting time, but no provision for pay covering this time. In addition to Ted's legal practice, which he says is "for the fun of it," he publishes the Erie, Pa., Dispatch-Herald-Sun and is President of the Unity Corp., which operates radio stations WTOD and WTOD-FM. Some day remind us, Ted, to replace that phonograph record of yours that we wore out in Middle Mass senior year—l think it was "March Past of the Gordon Highlanders" on one side and "March Past of the Cameron Highlanders" on the other. (We're nuts for the pipes, as the Scots say.)
The National Retail Dry Goods Association has just published a 140-page book entitled "Retail Job Analysis and Evaluation," written for the most part by George Plant, who is manager of the store-management and personnel groups of the Association. In spite of the long words in the title and our New Year's resolution against serious reading we're tempted to give it a leafing, as George is tops in his field and it's bound to be good. It's said to be the first approach to the subject from the standpoint of retail trade, and should assist in improving employee relations and establishing sound salary administration.
At the annual meeting of the Surety Association of America, Bill Wallace was elected chairman of the executive committee. Bill joined the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company in September 1923, and is now its vice president.
Jack (John D.) Taylor is featured in a recent issue of the Buffalo, N. Y., News in a series on industrial leaders of that city. Much emphasis in the article is placed on Jack's belief in the man-to-man relationship in business as opposed' to the boss-and-employee attitude. To bring you up to date, Jack is President of the Clement Company, printers, has sons aged 10 and is, and an ex-Navy son who's headed for Dartmouth.
Brooks Palmer chairmaned the Dutch Treat evening at the Club tn New York on January 15, ably assisted by his charming wife, Julie. As far as we know, it was the first husband and wife affair to be held in these heretofore exclusively masculine quarters. Brooks's persuasive ways brought 19 couples out in very inclement, not to say downright lousy, weather. The evening was so successful on all counts that dinner chairmen of other classes have been nudging each other and wondering why they didn't think of it first. Part of the report in the Dartmouth Club News runs, ".... while 1923 y0u know, Irish Flanigan's class—brought their ladies to the Landon Room and kept the lights burning, to all hours. Not that the class of 1923 needs an excuse for a party, but it just so happened that Mrs. Thomas L. Burch had a telegram telling of her election as a chaperone at Hanover's Winter Carnival and so, well, you know how it is with 1923—Irish Flanigan's class! Mrs. Burch insisted that it was a deal by her undergraduate sons, Doug '47 and Don '49, but everybody knows there never was any politics in 1923." All credit to the Palmers for what we hope will be only the first of a series of coeducational parties.
The Dartmouth (it used to be the Daily Dartmouth, remember?) reported in its issue for December 12, 1946: "It was not until 1923, in the middle of the bootlegging era, that Mary Warren was chosen as first ruler over Dartmouth sheiks in raccoon coats and slick haircuts." Yes, 1923 was the first class to select a Carnival Queen. Which brings us to the question of the month
Who squired Mary Warren at Winter Carnival in 1923? Does anyone remember? (Send your replies postpaid, please.)
RECEIVES AWARD. Lt. Col. Jim Landauer '23, right, receiving the Legion of Merit for organizational Air Corps work from Maj. Gen. Robert Douglas Jr.
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