Last week the following were news:
Charles Francis Adams, President Hoover's retiring Secretary of the Navy, president-elect of Boston's ancient Athenaeum (librarysee p. 20), was elected to the board of American Telephone 6 Telegraph Co. from which he resigned in 1929 after serving 17 years. Secretary Adams was appointed to the advisory board of Boston's Massachusetts Investors Trust last December, accepted a trusteeship in Century Shares Trust last month. As everyone expected after President Walter Sherman Gifford's near-promise in the annual report, A. T. & T.'s board last week declared the regular $2.25...