Word: barre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frankfurter recalled the Harvard Law School of 50 years ago and especially extolled the late Dean James Barr Ames who was "the soul of the school for 35 years." The atmosphere created by Ames, he said, gave one the desire to "do battle with the complexities of life...
Three College speakers will debate against Princeton tonight in the James Barr Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall in the annual triangular meeting dating from 1909. At the same time, another Harvard team will meet Yale at New Haven...
...Senate Committee on Disarmament will hold its first hearings in the James Barr Ames Courtroom of the Law School Monday, April 9, to get opinions from Boston's public and academic community, David F. Cavers, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law, announced yesterday...
MONTGOMERY WARD, which has been busy modernizing its old stores since President John A. Barr took over from Sewell Avery last May, is now planning to build new retail stores, the first in 15 years. Barr has already spent $86 million to brighten the chain's 566 retail outlets and add 33 mail order offices, succeeded last year in reversing Ward's four year sales slump. 1955 sales: $970 million...
...credit, said Wolfson, goes to Ward's President John A. Barr, who changed Ward's cautious, old-fashioned approach to selling, renovated hundreds of stores and laid plans to add 100 new catalogue-order offices, stepped up advertising, put new emphasis on installment selling. As a result, gross sales for 1955's final eleven months were up 10.1% to almost $1 billion, and are expected to grow even faster in 1956. Furthermore, the annual dividend was boosted from $3.50 to $4, plus a year-end extra...