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...Epaphroditus Peck, export salesman for Chauncey Jerome, another pioneering clockmaker, taught the English an early lesson in Yankee underselling. British customs authorities seized his first shipment of clocks because they were invoiced at such a low price that it looked like fraud. Under British law, Mr. Peck received the amount of his invoice plus 10%, and the British Government sold his clocks while he settled comfortably in London to wait for another shipment. The British bit a second time, but by the time they gave up and let in his third shipment in orthodox fashion, the Jerome trade-mark...
Realizing the complications that must obviously arise from six repeats in the Second Movement of the Mozart Symphony, Chauncey Rushton Skaekle, the 3rd, pointed out the sluggishness particularly evident in the second violin section, that bogged down the light mood of the 35th Symphony...
Many a senior class voted him its most inspiring professor. When he was upset in 1920 by Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker, the Phelps heyday at Yale was passing. By then Billy Phelps's literary notions were not even modern in the eyes of the sophisticated '20s. They could not agree with him that the swing of Eddie Guest's verse was "perfect," Walt Whitman "nothing but a Sears-Roebuck catalogue with calliope accompaniment."* Some of them were interested in James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis. Phelps...
Also, everywhere, on Franklin Roosevelt's second secret inspection trip of World War II, were politicians and Governors: South Carolina's Olin D. Johnston, Georgia's Ellis Arnall, Alabama's Chauncey Sparks, Tennessee's Prentice Cooper, Arkansas' Homer Adkins, Oklahoma's Robert Kerr...
Instead of being dispersed in the form of more generous grants to men remaining in College, any accumulated funds will be placed in reserve, as it is hoped to provide for the return after the war of departing students. Chauncey emphasized, however, that this announcement does not indicate a curtailment in the grants now being awarded to individual students...