Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...totaling about $500,000 by absorbing Seabury Divinity School in Faribault, Minn. The student bodies will be combined in Evanston next October, the merged institutions probably named Seabury-Western. Seabury having originally been named for Rt. Rev. Samuel Seabury, first U. S. Episcopal bishop, ancestor of Ward Seabury, Chicago businessman, and Samuel Seabury, New York inquisitor...
...Professors," declared Businessman Prince, "are one of the chief curses of the country. They talk too much. Most professors are a bunch of cowards and meddlers. Men do not shrink from life unless there is some cowardice about them. Professors do not hesitate to accept the endowments of those who have served the people and the nation in commerce and industry, but do nothing themselves but talk. You have only to think back over the last ten years to realize the difficulties we have been drawn into through professors. The sooner we get away from their influence the better...
...Businessman Prince's outburst had apparently been touched off by the seven-point program for the Roosevelt Administration enunciated last fortnight by Columbia's Economist Rexford Guy Tugwell (TIME, Feb. 6). From him and the rest of the professorial Roosevelt "brain trust" came no retort. But pedagogs throughout the land promptly answered Businessman Prince. Snapped young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago: "If professors had been listened to more in politics and economics . . . conditions wouldn't be what they are. But in times of prosperity no one will listen to a professor because...
After his blast Businessman Prince entered the fastnesses of "Princemere," his 1,000-acre estate with 70-room house at smart Prides Crossing. There he raises horses and hounds, sometimes plays polo despite his age, is regarded by Boston as one of its crustiest celebrities...
...Paris house or at Pau where he is Master of Fox Hounds. After the death of Cleveland's Myron Timothy Herrick, Frederick Henry Prince was mentioned for Ambassador to France but New Jersey's plump, influential Senator Edge beat him to it. Other interests of Businessman Prince are his big America's Cup yacht Weetamoe and the swank Myopia Country Club which he and his friends founded, taking the name from the fact that most of them were nearsighted...