Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert H. Chase '38, Robert Day '36, John A. Day '37, Morris Earle '38, Thomas Fuller '38, J. Bradford Millet '38, Robert D. Reed '36, Arthur M. Sherwood, III '36, Floyd W. Tomkins, Jr. '38, Gavin Hadden, Jr. '38, Charles D. Ruch '38, Peter P. Hale '38, Charles A. Munn, Jr. '38, Thomas Newbold '38, S. Trafford Hicks...
...Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien) arrives in China seriously possessed of the ideals inculcated by the company's training school. When he invents a cheap lamp which will make coolies buy more oil, he hands a drawing of it to his boss (Arthur Byron). When his fiancee jilts him, he marries the first presentable girl (Josephine Hutchinson) he meets in Shanghai because to return to his post single might cause him to look ridiculous and thus diminish his value to the company. Even when, as a reward for years of faithful service, his boss receives a humiliating demotion...
...upshot of all this, when he gets back to Shanghai, is enough to give pause even to an idealist as confirmed as Stephen Chase. Credit for his lamp has been assigned to one of his superiors. The position which should have been his reward for meritorious service has gone to an incompetent sycophant. A highly improbable transoceanic telephone call, from the president of the company in New York to Stephen's superior in Shanghai, sets things right at the last minute but Director Mervyn LeRoy contrives to make this unnecessary bow to precedent as cynical as possible. Good shot...
...professor of philosophy and psychology, president of University of North Carolina, president of University of Illinois and finally chancellor of New York University, Harry Woodburn Chase has devoted his entire career to rescuing people from ignorance. Last week in Manhattan, Chancellor Chase uprose to dedicate a memorial tablet to his institution's most famed professor, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the telegraph. Explaining that early 19th Century scientists held long distance telegraphy to be a physical impossibility, the Chancellor declared...
...Josephine Antoine, Julius Huehn and Dudley Marwick are products of the Juilliard School of Music; a Charlotte Symons has toured with the San Carlo company; a Hubert Raidich sings at the Brussels Opera. Thelma Votipka, Chase Baromeo, Carlo Morelli and Eduard Habicht have sung in opera in Chicago...