Word: aldrich
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...announced that he was for it. In the heavily G.O.P. Congress of 1909, the income-tax group, led by a fiery Tennessean named Cordell Hull, introduced their measure-aimed, as Hull said, at the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and the Rockefellers. The leading "plutocrat" of the Senate, Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island, first tried desperately to stave off the bill, finally offered the constitutional amendment legalizing an income tax. Hull and his group thought that Aldrich was trying to trick them, that the conservatives would kill the proposed amendment in the state legislatures...
...Aldrich Hall's guinea pig lecture room behind Baker Library at the Business School will be used as a storeroom this term, Business School officials said yesterday...
Built last spring to test the new design of a lecture room which will be incorporated into Aldrich Hall, it has proved the efficiency of the design according to officials...
...Milton Berle show might have daunted even hardier men than NBC's executives. It was accomplished by having Milton go offstage while Vice President Alben Barkley came on, to talk about Abraham Lincoln. Howdy Doody was swung into line with a children's newsreel, and The Aldrich Family contributed its mite by devoting one show to a discussion of the basic types of English sentence structure...
...building is named for the late Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who gave the funds for its construction and partial endowment...