Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following were given scholarships: A. Ross Borden Jr. '39, of Cambridge, Coleridge A. Braithwaite '39, of Cambridge, Edgar L. Haff Jr., '39, of Fort Edward, New York, H. Rushton Harwood Jr. '39, of Springfield, John H. Howland '39, of Windsor, Vermont, Bernard Kalman '39, of Roxbury, Leonard E. Leboeuf '39, of Webster, Joseph S. Wysan '39, of Milford, William H. Magruder '40 of Bethesda, Maryland, Walter D. Riddle Jr. '40, of Edgeworth, Pennsylvania, Holland L. Willard '40, of Lawrence, and William A. Braden...
...succeeded his father (who retired) as president. One of the most eligible bachelors in New York, Teutonic, punctilious Jacob Ruppert, who had been appointed a colonel on Governor David B. Hill's staff, served four terms in Congress, bought a stable of race horses, raised blue-ribbon St. Bernard dogs, collected little monkeys, began to pick up choice parcels of Manhattan real estate...
John Alford Stevenson is a refutation of George Bernard Shaw's quip: "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." Getting a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1928, he began a teaching career which eventually took him to the Carnegie Institute's School of Life Insurance Salesmanship as director...
...same: stirring up a war psychology in the nation. That psychology has been on the rise in Washington since Franklin Roosevelt's "quarantine" speech in 1937. Publishers, editors, correspondents produce more & more newspaper stories about it, abetted by Roosevelt advisers like Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson and Bernard Baruch. As in the years leading up to 1917, it is becoming difficult to tell where legitimate news stops and jingoism begins...
...Exhibited at the Downtown Gallery was Making Music by Bernard Karfiol: two boys playing an accordion and a guitar in the luminous corner of an old, low, New England room with Colonial Primitive portraits on the wall behind them. Notable was the skill with which the painter made his own music of warm colors, cool light, suspended pattern...