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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brothers, with enrollment booming along with football receipts, sold their Oakland site for $750,000 and borrowed $1,500,000 on a bond issue to build a handsome new plant in the Moraga Valley. In 1934, with $1,370,500 of the bonds still outstanding, the Brothers stopped paying interest and have paid none since. When the bondholders' committee, formed under the chairmanship of Frederic F. Janney of Dean, Witter & Co. which floated the issue, installed their own Comptroller James Everett Butler to supervise the college accounts, he found that St. Mary's was running...
Hornsby's uproarious career began when President Donald Barnes of the St. Louis Browns, of which Hornsby has been manager since 1933, announced to the press that Hornsby had been ousted, along with his coach, Charlie O'Leary, and a clubhouse boy named Milton ("Alabama") Delmas. Picked to replace Hornsby was the Browns' good-natured First Baseman Jim Bottomley. Picked to replace O'Leary was Charles E. ("Gabby") Street, onetime (1930-33) manager of the St. Louis Cardinals...
...speculator is Son Laurance, who received third place in a poll for the "most pious" member of his class at Princeton. He works in his father's office in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center along with three of his brothers. Brother John D. Ill helps on Rockefeller policies. Brother Nelson, supposed to have been the apple of his grandfather's eye, specializes in real estate. Brother Winthrop is the first Rockefeller to take a first-hand interest in oil since the dynasty was founded. Having just completed a year of postgraduate work at Harvard, young Brother David...
That this incident would have provoked a resignation if strong-willed Dr. Dennett had been getting along smoothly with his trustees, Williams men found hard to believe. They pointed out that Tyler Dennett is a man who needs plenty of elbow room, that he quit his post as Historical Adviser to the State Department in 1931 thoroughly impatient with "bureaucracy." But no one thought that Tyler Dennett, an able, searching scholar whose John Hay biography won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize, would find it hard to get another job. This week the trustees elected as his successor one of their...
...fine Iowa morning last week a country doctor saw a strange thing in the sky. It looked like two clusters of white grapes, floating along with the wind, with something resembling a bathtub, a coffin or a sweatbox dangling below. The doctor was on a confinement case so he did not stop to gawp...