Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First on the list of speakers is Bart J. Bok, associate professor of Astronomy, and ardent Faculty supporter of the food plan, who will tell why the problem of food relief is of immediate and pressing importance. Following him is Lucien Brouha, physiologist to the Grant Study, who plans to cover the physiological aspects of hunger. Third speaker is William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, who opposes the plan unless it is done through the auspices of the United States Government. Finally, Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, who has recently returned from Europe, will discuss the relation...
...newcomer is Gillette to the sportscasting field. President J. P. Spang Jr. is ardent about athletics, shoots golf in the low 80s himself. His company broadcast the Baer-Braddock fight in 1935, has since sponsored radio accounts of a couple of world series as well as horse races and football games. Probable price paid for the Jacobs nod: $200,000, some $50,000 more than the Adam contract called...
Bart J. Bok, associate professor of Astronomy, member of the committee's executive board, and most ardent supporter of food relief on the committee, was delighted with the unanimous vote accorded the letter. He feels that this decision of a non-partisan and unprejudiced group is significant, in that it shows the appeal and simplicity of the plan...
...gentleman who had been his Kenya neighbor since the early '20s. This was spruce, mustachioed Major Sir Henry John Delves ("Sir Jock") Broughton, 57. An old Etonian, he had inherited his ancestral Doddington Park in Cheshire, and a half-million pounds, from a recluse relative. An ardent racing fan, he had served through World War I in the Irish Guards, where he was known as the best card player in the officers' mess. Early in 1940, after 26 years of marriage, Sir Jock had been divorced by Lady Broughton, an avid sportswoman who kept a private...
...Hauptmann became a celebrity six years ago when the Rutgers trustees tried him for firing an anti-Nazi professor. The trustees exonerated Dr. Hauptmann, but the trial showed that he was an ardent Nazi. Witnesses testified that he had called President Wilson a "Schweinehund," had written to Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels for propaganda material to be used...