Word: bryants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free silver debate, President Cleveland secretly had a cancer removed from his upper left jaw. Dr. Erdmann went along. "The yacht Oneida, owned by the late E. C. Benedict, was anchored off the Battery landing. Under cover of darkness the President went aboard, followed by Dr. Joseph Bryant [the operating surgeon]. Major O'Reilly of the Army Medical Corps, a dentist and [three other doctors]. We sailed all night down Long Island Sound, anchored in Plum Gut, and the operation was performed the next morning. It was done in the salon of the yacht, the President sitting upon...
Author of this plan was Harvard's President James Bryant Conant. President Conant and a fellow member of the three-man committee that had cleared up the rubber mess, M.I.T.'s President Karl Compton, joined in warning the nation that it could no longer delay clearing up its college manpower mess. Taking issue with Army men who had declared that all students were destined for the armed forces, they pointed to the urgent need for experts in war industry. Said President Compton: "My own experience with the scientific program of the Government and the technical problems...
President James Bryant Conant will speak at chapel services tomorrow morning at 8:45 o'clock in his only talk to the University since the opening of Summer School last June...
Because the pressure of his war duties has been lessened, President James Bryant Conant will be able to spend more time at the University this winter than he has during the past several months, he revealed yesterday. From now on he plans to divide his time between the two jobs, whereas this past summer his work on the rubber committee kept him from Cambridge except for a few visits...
...view of the manpower shortage, everybody wanted the women to work except Local 6. Regional Director James V. Bryant of the War Manpower Commission threatened to refer the quarrel right to Washington. Even the Treasury Department lent the women a helping hand: it offered shipyards 300 complete sets of washroom plumbing (scrapped from a hotel turned into a Treasury office building) for bigger and better Rainbow Rooms...