Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel they knew Dr. Dodds very well, just as Harvard men last month did not feel acquainted with their new President James Bryant Conant (TIME, May 15). Between the two there is further resemblance. Both are cool, shrewd, quiet, bespectacled. Dr. Dodds is the youngest Princeton president since Aaron Burr (32)* in 1748 and Samuel Davies (36) in 1759. No other Princeton president save Woodrow Wilson has been a non-clergyman, but Dr. Dodds, like Wilson, is the son of a Presbyterian minister. Born in Utica. Pa. he grew up in Grove City and took his A. B. degree...
...loyal family helped him get away. Joe went West, joined the gold rush to the Black Hills. He had so many irons in the fire he was always hoping one would get hot, but it never did. Meanwhile his favorite sister Catherine died, Anne and Hortense married failures, Aaron got greyer and stingier. Joe's bitterest pill was to watch his youngest brother David, a hypocritical prig, become the only financial success in the family. Joe's letters home were optimistic to the last, but long before the end he found himself a settled failure, saddled with...
When Joe Trexler left his Pennsylvania Dutch home in Philadelphia in 1868, he headed South with other carpetbaggers. Joe was a green boy but his eyes were wide open, and he had taking ways. His hard-working mother, unpractical elder brother Aaron, his adoring sisters all hoped Joe would make a fortune. In Atlanta Joe got in with a smooth crowd who were making a very good thing out of a railroad company. He never quite gathered what it was all about, but he knew what to do while the sun was shining. When at last the clouds gathered...
...squad of Soviet lawyers was rounded up to act for the defense, and the arrested Britons were summoned to the offices of the Collegium of Attorneys to pick their favorites. Their choices: Engineer Monk-house-Nikolai Kanadev; Engineer Thornton-Ilya Browde; Engineer Cushny-Peter Lidov; Engineers Nordwall & Gregory-Aaron Dolmatovski. Commented Correspondent Walter Duranty...
...York. The most violent boycott scheme came from the same Lawyer Aaron Sapiro who once sued Henry Ford for $1,000,000 for defaming the Jewish race. Acting as though there really existed that chief bugaboo of Jew-baiters, a secret international Jewish commercial organization, he proposed an international boycott of German goods by Jewish importers and commission merchants "from Vladivostok and Shanghai to Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg." He offered to organize a general staff to help importers all over the world find substitutes for German goods and send weekly bulletins to leaders of Jewish communities in every city...