Word: chester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...request of Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of Commerce and Chairman of the National American Committee. Chester L. Dawes, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Albert Haertlein, Associate Professor of Engineering have been appointed as delegates of the University to the Third World Power Conference which will be held at Washington, December 7-12. The First World Power Conference was held in London in 1924 and the Second in Berlin...
...whirlwind fund-raising campaign in 1924, left it with $33,000,000 in buildings and equipment, a $51,000,000 endowment that ranks fifth in the U. S. The University of Rochester does not have to worry about the quality of its president, able, young, onetime Rhodes Scholar Alan Chester Valentine, imported from Yale four months ago (TIME, Nov. 25). The University of Rochester does not have to worry about the brainpower of its faculty, which includes venerable Geologist Herman Le Roy Fairchild; able young Physicist Lee Alvin DuBridge; Historian Dexter Perkins. But last week the University of Rochester appeared...
Rehearsals are in full swing under the direction of Ernest J. Simmons, instructor in English, and parts have been assigned as follows: Pierre Patelin, Edwin K. Packard '37; Guillemette, Chester G. Ormond '38; the draper, Robert G. Wolfe '38; the judge, Morris Earle '38; the shephered, Roger F. Duncan...
...following Juniors have been nominated for the House Committee: Daniel E. Burbank, Jr., Edward T. Gignoux, Ernest A. Gray, Jr., Herbert W. Horne, Jr., Chester W. MacArthur, Joseph a. Maiullo, 2nd, Edward O. Miller, Thomas S. Sappington, and Edward L. Young, 3d. Three will be elected...
Case of Clyde Griffiths (by Erwin Piscator & Lena Goldschmidt; Group Theatre & Milton Shubert, producers). Thirty years ago an errant youth of Cortland, N.Y. named Chester Gillette took his sweetheart, Grace Brown, out in a rowboat, drowned her because Grace was pregnant and Chester wanted to marry a rich girl. For a generation Chester Gillette's crime and punishment were forgotten by the outside world until Theodore Dreiser exhumed the case, wrote a wordy but exhaustive novel about it called An American Tragedy. Since 1926 the Dreiser story of "Clyde Griffiths' " downfall has become a sort of national institution...