Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before accepting the position, Pennsylvania's 16th chief executive stipulated: 1) that he would serve without pay, 2) that he be allowed time to attend to his far-flung business interests, 3) that he must not be expected to become "involved in any routine work that would preclude my absence from the university for travel," 4) that he "would not feel justified in accepting any such executive position" unless he could count upon the assistance of Trustee Charles Day, Philadelphia engineer. All these provisos were accepted and Pennsylvanians felt they would get a sound business administration...
Goucher. Although it ranks 16th in enrolment among U. S. women's colleges, the distinction and importance of Goucher College at Baltimore are disproportionate to its registration (985). Fourteen months ago its president, William Westley Guth, died. Nine months later acting President Hans Froelicher died. Then Dean Dorothy Stimson, cousin of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, became acting president (TIME, Feb. 3). Last week Goucher acquired a full-fledged president, David Allan Robertson, A. B., longtime (1904-23) member of the University of Chicago's English faculty...
Abraham Lincoln left later Presidents little to say at Gettysburg. President Hoover, whose personal reverence for the 16th President is deep and true, nevertheless fulfilled a promise given Pennsylvania's far-sighted Governor Fisher in California before election by traveling to the battlefield to deliver a Memorial Day address. For the first time a grey-garbed Confederate Veteran (William Haines, 93, cavalryman) sat on the platform with the President...
...record of Representative Edgar Raymond Kiess of the 16th Pennsylvania District is as follows...
Indeed handsome, the Wurts gardens on the Janiculum Hill which once belonged to the ancient Roman House of Sciarra, are complete with a restored "old villa" and a "new villa" built by Mr. Wurts in the 16th century manner, full of Mr. Wurts' art collection which also goes to the City of Rome...