Word: bryants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mismanagement in early handling of the shortage. He might be persuaded to soft-pedal all that, but he would state flatly that the situation is now so critical that all pleasure driving should be eliminated and automobiles used only for essential business. He and his brainy colleagues, James Bryant Conant and Karl Taylor Compton, had also looked at the synthetic-rubber program finally gotten under way by WPB (TIME, July 20) and found it good. He was expected to recommend...
...counts most in this transformation is Harvard's tall, razor-keen, 49-year-old President James Bryant Conant. Last week he was even busier than his university. In Washington he spent most of the week conferring with fellow members of Franklin Roosevelt's three-man committee investigating rubber. As chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he helps direct U.S. scientists' search for new materials, new weapons...
...hard park bench in Washington's Lafayette Square, three of the nation's most distinguished citizens held a momentous conference on the Rubber Scandal last week. The sun gleamed dully on the scabrous green of the old Andrew Jackson hobbyhorse statue. Serious, bespectacled James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University, shed his coat. So did aggressive, square-jawed Karl Taylor Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch-to whom the bench is a favorite office (TIME, May 12, 1941)-kept on his light summer jacket...
...Alfred Worcester, the Clinic has a short history. Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver professor of Hygiene, successor to Dr. Worcester, expanded the Clinic in 1935 to its present size. At the present time, the personnel inclues a full-time nurse and secretary, and two doctors, Bryant L. Decker. M.D., physician, and Robert R. Linton, M.D., surgeon...
...Convocation: Address by President James Bryant Conant, Sanders Theatre and New Lecture Hall...