Word: brett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During its 164 years Rutgers University, on the south bank of the Raritan River at New Brunswick, N. J., has had ten presidents, one acting president. Last week Philip Milledoler Brett, class of 1892, Manhattan attorney, was made Rutgers' second executive pro tempore, succeeding John Martin Thomas, president since 1925, who resigned to become vice president of National Life Insurance Co. of Montpelier...
...choice of Acting President Brett was a traditional one. His great-great-grandfather was the third president of Rutgers (1825-40), his grandfather was in the class of 1834, his father was graduated from the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1865, his son will come under his official supervision as a member of the class...
...Philip Milledoler Brett, Manhattan lawyer, captain of a late team, credited with the famed statement, "I'd die for dear old Rutgers." He denied it. Others too have denied it, but asserted they knew...
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Nominee Cross's first act to prove his political mastery was to have Patrick Brett O'Sullivan, onetime Congressman, named chairman of the State Committee and Joseph H. Tone, secretary. Promising the Republicans "a whale of a fight," he hurried back to his Yale Review office at New Haven, prepared for an old-fashioned "cracker barrel" campaign...