Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually born on December 14, and called Albert (Bertie to his family), the present King of England became George when he reached the throne (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936) and His Majesty's official birthday was changed to June 9. when...
...Leoles case was the first involving the flag salute to reach the Supreme Court. Fortnight before, Federal Judge Albert B. Maris in Philadelphia had held a compulsory salute rule unconstitutional. Whether the highest court's ruling in the Leoles case was a final determination of the matter and doomed other pending appeals by Jehovah's Witnesses, the Witnesses' lawyers did not know, but they considered it unfavorable that in its decision the court cited the University of California case, in which it had ruled that students did not have the right to exemption from military training...
...Getchell holds two-thirds of the stock of Picture, shares with Popular Science President Albert L. Cole and Benton & Bowles Agency Director William B. Benton, also stockholders, its direction. Picture's nominal president is Getchell Brother-in-Law J. Paschall Davis, attorney and son of Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis...
Lecturing in Manhattan at the annual dinner of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dr. Earnest Albert Hooton, Harvard professor of anthropology, author of Apes, Men and Morons (TIME, Nov. 8), declared: "Man made himself out of the ape, partly by becoming an engineer. The danger now is that the engineers will make apes of all of us." When asked why the pockets of his lost & found overcoat contained fish-hooks, Col. Theodore Roosevelt explained: "I captured [them] from the New Deal. They had been using them to catch suckers...
...Philadelphia, where such things count, Edward B. Smith & Co. was socially the equal of Chas. D. Barney & Co., and financially it was not scorned even by Drexel & Co. (branch of J. P. Morgan). During the War, however, Edward B. Smith & Co. lost ground, and the founder's son Albert and a group of young partners headed by John W. Cutler had to start almost from scratch. As in C. D. Barney, the Manhattan office became the head office but, instead of concentrating on the brokerage business, E. B. Smith set out to rebuild its underwriting business...