Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rally industry into line was General Hugh Samuel Johnson, West Pointer, lawyer, boys' book writer, associate of Bernard Marines Baruch and originator and administrator of the War-time selective draft. Like Col. Sawyer. General Johnson, as Administrator for Industrial recovery, was given the counsel of the Secretaries of Commerce. Agriculture, Labor; Attorney General. Director of the Budget, Federal Trade Commissioner Chairman. These in turn began last week to draw keymen from the ranks of economists, businessmen, labor leaders to make up advisory boards. The Industrial Advisory Board appointed by Secretary Roper included: General Motors President Alfred Pritchard Sloan...
Favorite in the Coy Maid Purse, at Belmont Park (L. I.), last week, was Bernard M. Baruch's two-year-old filly. Watch Her. At the barrier. Watch Her succeeded in throwing her jockey, Tony Pascuma. She ran riderless down the chute which cuts across the infield, then twice around the 1½-mi. track, and finally, before anyone could catch her, jumped a fence and started toward her stable. A mounted policeman caught her running toward the third jump on a nearby steeplechase course, brought her back to the post. By this time-32 minutes after the horses...
Died. Winchell Smith. 61, actor, producer, playwright (Lightnin', Turn to the Right, Brewster's Millions) whose theatrical ventures yielded him $6,000,000; of arteriosclerosis; in Hartford, Conn. With Producer Arnold Daly he introduced the plays of George Bernard Shaw into the U. S., was arrested for staging Mrs. Warren's Profession. His first play. Brewster's Millions, earned $1,000,000. Lightnin', written in 1918 in collaboration with Frank Bacon, ran for three years in Manhattan. In 1919 he retired, sold his interests to Producer John Golden. Three years ago he emerged from retirement...
...they waited for the store to open, a coupe drew up behind them, then sped away. Mailloux smelled smoke, ran to the rear of the truck, found a sizzling bomb planted in the shirts. He grabbed it, hurled it to the sidewalk. It landed at the feet of Bystander Bernard Witt, exploded, blew him into the air, broke...
...thesis this year: "The Witch of Wych Street," a study of the theatrical reforms of Madame Vestris, by Leo Waitzkin '33. The following theses have appeared in previous years: "Poetical Intoxication," by W. N. Bates '30; "Shakspere and the Ireland Forgeries," by Derk Bodde '30; "The Respectability of Mr. Bernard Shaw," by Ayers Brinser '31; "The Creed of a Victorian Pagan," by Robert Peel '31; and "Shilling Shockers of the Gothic School," by W. W. Watt '32. Publication of honors theses is made possible by a grant from the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers...