Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 29, 1931 Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, older and wiser of Cleveland's bachelor brothers of railroading, called at No. 23 Wall Street to transact some business with J. P. Morgan & Co., his biggest bankers. As he chatted in an inner office someone summoned him to an adjoining room. There he found an old friend, Joseph R. Nutt, Cleveland banker. After a brief conversation Mr Nutt produced a document. He beamed while Mr. Van Sweringen signed...
Such a stiffening of requirements is highly advisable and should set a precedent for other departments. Under present conditions it is in many cases easier to obtain a master's degree than a bachelor's degree with honors. Men coming from other colleges can obtain an A.M., and with it the prestige of a Harvard degree, and yet not have as complete a mastery or understanding of the field as a Harvard student who has obtained his A.B. with honors. For this reason an A.M. from Harvard is losing the importance it should have in academic circles. By requiring...
...wedding was small and restricted to intimate friends. The families of the bride and bridegroom did not attend. The witnesses were Messrs. Merritt and Phelan. After the ceremony the happy couple separated, the bridegroom returning to his bachelor cell block in the jail, the bride to the home of her parents...
...obtained a license for that date but a crisis in the affairs of Mr. Slavickas caused the marriage to be advanced. It appears that Mr. Slavickas was celebrating his forthcoming nuptials with a party of friends on Friday night at his home. It was by way of being a bachelor's dinner and refreshments were plentiful...
...last week's bankruptcy was $2,088,000 in bank loans long overdue. The receiver talked of selling the company to another motormaker, but Herbert Henry Franklin's friends hoped against hope that direct Government loans to industry might yet save the concern for the lonely, crusty bachelor of 68 whose sole interests are air-cooled cars and good roads to run them...