Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside big, red-brick Memorial High School in Campbell, Ohio, one morning last week 800 pupils milled excitedly, shouting at 200 who were pressed anxiously against the windows inside. Those outside were "on strike" because School Superintendent Andrew S. Klinko had abruptly shifted Memorial's popular journalism instructor, sandy-haired 29-year-old Michael Graban, to a grade school. Up sped a squadron of police, ordered the strikers to disperse. When they refused, the police, hardened by many a riot in nearby steelmaking Youngstown, tossed two tear gas bombs into their midst, drove them coughing and sneezing down...
...Charles Walton ("Chuck") Deeds, son of Chairman Edward Andrew Deeds of National Cash Register, invested $40 in Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. After United Aircraft & Transport took over the company in 1929 Mr. Deeds went to town on that investment to the tune of $1,600,000 (TIME, Jan. 29, 1934). Last week young Mr. Deeds resigned as President of United Aircraft Export Corp. to give all his time to United's Pratt & Whitney Division. Elected to succeed him was a hefty six-footer named Thomas Foster Hamilton...
Fleet Street has not forgotten how heavy fines running up to $2,500 each were exacted from some of London's principal newspapers for their reporting of the incident in which figured an herbalist named George Andrew McMahon, his revolver and King Edward (TIME, July 27). The nature of this incident as ultimately aired in court was something upon which Fleet Street found it financially safer not to comment last week. Almost alone was the Chicago Tribune in sending its Correspondent David Darrah to report what the herbalist's lawyer Alfred Kerstein had to say as he moved...
Said President Roosevelt, drawing one of those non-political analogies he loves so well: "At the time of the Bicentenary many of the alumni of Harvard were sorely troubled concerning the state of the nation. Andrew Jackson was President. On the 250th Anniversary of the founding of Harvard College, alumni again were sorely troubled. Grover Cleveland was President. Now, on the 500th Anniversary, I am President...
Died, Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, First Baron Moynihan of Leeds, 70, famed British surgeon; of shock following the death of his wife; in Leeds, England. International authority on cancer. Lord Moynihan twice achieved notoriety: in 1929 when he stated that German aviators dropped plague bacilli bombs on British forces during the War, again in 1935 when he organized the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society in a crusade to legalize "mercy killings" of incurable patients by their physicians. Offered the honor of burying him in Westminster Abbey, Lord Moynihan's family refused, buried him near his wife in Leeds...