Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dayton the enrolment began with 50. In Princeton, where the School has settled to be in a college community near Manhattan, the number is up to 100. And next autumn there will be four new buildings so that the students will no longer have to hike three miles to classes. But John Williamson is proudest of his graduates' accomplishments. More than 400 have important church jobs. There is a Westminster Choir School in Japan, another in India. A Westminster graduate teaches music at the Silliman Institute in the Philippine Islands. Studying with Dr. Williamson now are natives of Korea...
...Last autumn Latin-American papers reported the birth of sextuplets to a British Guiana woman. None lived. This report was not authenticated...
...evening, attends no Hollywood parties even when they are given by Universal's Carl Laemmle Jr. Stubborn about her own affairs, she replies to studio requests to have a crooked tooth in the left side of her mouth straightened by saying she prefers it crooked. Studio officials last autumn persuaded her to have a mole on the left side of her face removed. She disappeared for four days until the mole had completely vanished. In 1931, while she was acting at West Falmouth, Mass., she married a member of the company named Henry Fonda, now appearing in Manhattan...
First choice for Commission chairman is James McCauley Landis, 34, Federal Trade Commissioner whom President Roosevelt appointed last autumn. Commissioner Landis is a frequent and welcome caller at the White House because he sees eye to eye with the President on rigid control of the entire securities business. He never let the Exchange Bill out of his sight from the time it was being drafted until it was safely past the conference committee. Lean, serious, energetic and extremely able, he was a full professor at the Harvard Law School at 29. A shining disciple of Justice Brandeis, he is regarded...
...hands of a Hartley henchman named William Neal Winter, a practicing spiritualist with a "control" named Hugo. Asked Washingtonians: "Who really runs the University-Hartley or Hugo?" In 1932 Hartley (or Hugo), ostensibly for economy, smashed the Suzzalo system of Colleges, bore down on extracurricular activities, optional courses. That autumn Washington Alumnus Clarence Daniel Martin (Class of 1906) rode the Democratic landslide into the Governorship. President Spencer soon "asked" to be relieved of his job and given an English professorship. A new Board of Regents granted his first request, denied his second...