Word: bender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ideas were popping into the editors' heads by the dozen. They dropped a few clues by signing their letters with the name of a famed Soviet comic character, "O. Bender," and with "William Tell, Trust Secretary." To soften the hardships of their Kazakstan expedition, they got special rates on extra food, phonographs, records, banjos and guitars. Then they asked the Scrap Iron Trust for 10,000 rubles for the expedition. The Trust passed them on to Constantine Maltsev, Assistant Commissar for Education. He, for one, did not bite, did not laugh. Instead he called the OGPU. One editor, arrested...
...already held one meeting this year, is composed of Charles T. Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, George H. Chase '96, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, James B. Munn '12, Professor of English, Delmar Leighton '17, Dean of Freshmen, Wilbur J. Bender '27, Assistant Dean of Harvard College, and Lyman H. Butterfield, Instructor in English...
Heretofore the Freshman libraries have been decidedly lacking in scientific works, and in order to remedy this there is now a committee for the selection of scientific books. This committee consists of Dean Delmar Leighton, Assistant Dean Wilbur J. Bender, and six members of scientific departments in the University...
Under him there are still two Assistant Freshman Deans, Chauncey and Bender, who divide the class between them A-L and L-Z, and perform some of the less honorific tasks for which deans are famous...
...Mills endorse the plan. But most notable is the list of tycoons who sponsor it. Some years ago the University of California board of regents, heavily influenced by utility men. voted not to let "Radical" Meiklejohn speak to the students. Deeply chagrined were many liberals, including Art Collector Albert Bender. Last week Mr. Bender's name was on the list but so were names of such conservative stripe as: Banker James K. Moffitt, Paint Man Parmer Fuller. Director Wetmore Hodges of General Foods Corp. Others: Lawyer Albert Rosenshine, Architect Irving F. Morrow (Golden Gate Bridge), Banker-Author Jesse Lilienthal...