Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigators of the American Association of University Professors last week reported on President Hamilton Holt's summary dismissal of Professor John Andrew Rice and others from Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. (TIME, June 19, July 10, Sept. 4). President Holt was found to have made himself autocrat of Rollins. ("When you want to fire a cook, you don't go out and get a committee of neighbors to tell you what to do, do you?") Professor Rice, no ''yes-man," had vexed President Holt and other Floridans by behaving much as satiric, cacographic Dean Swift...
...prominent citizens endorsing Hearst's proposed memorial to sailors lost in the Maine (1898), Cleveland telegraphed him: "I decline to allow my sorrow for those who died on the Maine to be perverted to an advertising scheme for the New York Journal." One of his letters to Andrew Carnegie thanks him for a present of Scotch; another (written as a trustee of Princeton University) advises Carnegie to give a proposed benefaction in the form of endowment for the Graduate School. (Instead, Carnegie gave Princeton an artificial lake...
...Leverett House winter dance will take place on Wednesday, December 13. Jacques Fischer and his orchestra will provide the music. The price has been set at three dollars per couple and two dollars for stags. The dance committee is as follows: Andrew Marshall '34, William W. Beardsley '34, Ira L. Oppenheimer '34, Nixon deTarnowski '35, Stephen H. Tyng '35, Judson Bemis...
Born, To Ailsa Mellon Bruce, only daughter of Andrew William Mellon, and David Kilpatrick Este Bruce, son of Maryland's onetime U. S. Senator William Cabell Bruce, whom she married in 1926; their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan...
...sold his idea to bank officials throughout the land, he has learned that stockholders are not yet enthusiastic. And last week Mr. Jones met the first flat refusal from a clearing house association. The Pittsburgh Clearing House held a secret session. To it-his first meeting in years-went Andrew William Mellon. Just what happened was not revealed, but people said old Mr. Mellon simply stated that his Union Trust and Mellon National "would not need any of the Government's money." The Pittsburgh Clearing House voted down the double blue eagle...