Word: adame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conley expects to build his team of eight or ten men around four champions and runners-up of last year's University boxing tournament, Adam Palaza '31, featherweight; J. J. Mellen '33, lightweight; P. H. Lord '33. Light weight; and M. C. Aldis '32, heavy-weight. Besides these, there is the University squad composed of 24 men at the present time, most of whom have had at least one year's experience in tournaments, either in the University matches at Harvard or at other colleges. The men are evenly divided by weight into all classes except the bantam and heavy...
Americans will view these proceedings with alarm. But they cannot support the protective policy of the United States and condemn similar measures in Europe. Adam Smith, one of the greatest advocates of free trade, said that restrictions on trade were perfectly justifiable if in retaliation. But the evils which this measure will bring really overcome any abstract ideas of justice that it may have in its support...
Died. Lee-Adam Gimbel, 34, Manhattan stockbroker (Sartorius & Smith), onetime member of the New York Stock Exchange, onetime vice president and director of Gimbel Bros. Inc. (Manhattan department store); by falling or jumping from a 16th story window of the Yale Club; in Manhattan...
Professor John Erskine of Columbia University, who has since come to fame as a novelist (The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve), was sent to France during the War as education chief for the A. E. F. Early in 1918 he visited the front lines of the French Army. He wrote some sonnets about what he saw and felt. Some of the verses, "At the Front . . . First Impressions," he gave to Franklin Pierce Adams ("F. P. A."), now the New York World's famed colyumist, then a staffman on The Stars & Stripes...
...factory. After the War he started speculating. Financiers doubted last week whether he ever actually made much money, but with all the nerve in the world he rode high on the wave of French inflation, established Banque Oustric et Cie, later was able to buy control of the Banque Adam, the oldest bank in France. Then his method was the old established one of buying out a number of companies in the same industry-shoe companies were at first his favorite-consolidating them, selling stock in the merger at four or five times its actual value. Came the Wall Street...