Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same day the President made a prime appointment: Joseph Bartlett Eastman, squash-playing bachelor who believes in Government-ownership of railroads, to tie Coordinator under the Railroad Emergency Act. Retiring from the Interstate Commerce Commission, Coordinator Eastman will try to help the roads reduce wasteful duplications of service...
...total of 2148 degrees is 57 less than the number last year, reflecting the slight inroads of the depression. Of these, 680 went to undergraduates in the College, 550 receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts (229 with honors), and 130 that of Bachelor of Science (38 with honors). Thus more than one-third of those graduating in the College received honors...
Because one of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s deals was the financing of Alleghany Corp., Mr. Pecora sent to Cleveland and brought the bachelor brothers Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen posting to the Capital, put "O. P." upon the stand and kept him there four solid days...
...Yale Daily News interview, Juliana Cutting, New York society arbiter and impresario whose omniscient lists determine bachelor eligibility to most debutante parties, predicted "smaller parties, moderate drinking and better times had by all." Her formula for a successful party: "A boy and a half to a girl, if a dinner dance, and two to one if a supper dance, rather than three or four boys to a girl. The men would enjoy the dance more and would not have to 'drown their sorrows,' the girls would have more consistent dancing." Ended awesome Miss Cutting: "Tell the Yale young...
...Passed (211-to-4) a Senate bill to confer Bachelor of Science degrees on Army graduates at West Point, Navy graduates at Annapolis, Coast Guard graduates at New London...