Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seventh Day Adventists who are firmly resolved that Ethiopia shall not yield. With their little organ pealing Rock of Ages, followed by What A Friend We Have In Jesus, the Emperor displayed unwavering courage, flayed The Deal to correspondents, and assented when his Acting Secretary of State, Mr. Everett Andrew Colson, a native of Warren, Me., advised from Addis Ababa that Ethiopia should not take upon herself the onus of rejecting the Franco-British proposal but should pass the buck to the League of Nations...
Charles Franklin Kettering grew up on an Ohio farm, strained his eyes reading in bad light, had to get a friend to do his reading for him while he was studying at Ohio State. After working at National Cash Register, Mr. Kettering and Edward Andrew Deeds started Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co., sold Delco lighting plants to U. S. farmers. His best known invention-the self-starter for motorcars -was developed for Henry M. Leland, onetime head of Cadillac. General Motors got Mr. Kettering when they got Delco and Mr. Kettering is now head of General Motors Research Division...
Upon learning that his undergraduates had been invited to play a game of football with the University of Michigan, President Andrew D. White of Cornell snapped: "I will not permit 30 men to travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind!" That was in 1873. Last week there was not a corner in the land which did not hold a college president who would not have been delighted to dispatch a trainload of players, coaches, rubbers, managers, bandsmen on the long, expensive trip to Pasadena for the publicity and profit of playing in the Rose Bowl...
...Seniors who will be inducted include Robert R. Baker of Evanston, Illinois, Edward L. Bassett of Marble-head, Simon M. Bessie of New York City, Bernard D. Davis of Franklin, George S. Franklin of New York City, Bernard German of Newark, August C. Helmholz of Rochester, Minnesota; Andrew Kacmarcyk of Brooklyn; Philip E. Lilienthal of New York City; Douglas T. McClay of Dorchester; edward Meilman of Roxbury; Herman E. Schroeder of Brooklyn; Richard E. Voland of New Rochelle, New York; Harold P. Welch of Winchendon; Francis J. Whitefield of Springfield; and Harold Winkler of Lawrence...
...Andrew Carnegie had been alive last week he would have felt richly rewarded for having given Manhattan a fine concert hall. Great music was played there by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic. Another impressive concert commemorated the 100th birthday of the bearded little Scot who made such hearings possible. With music of a different calibre there was a newcomer at Carnegie Hall last week. She was Edith Lorand, trim, dark-haired Hungarian who fiddles and conducts an orchestra simultaneously...