Word: chief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown's School Days is a book more people have heard of than read. Its author, Thomas Hughes, was Englis has a mutton chop. Chief interests of his life were cricket and Utopia...
...occasion slip by without reminding the world that there were other aggressions and other aggressors. M. Paul-Boncour said that France and Britain were today fighting to "defend the very principle on which the League was founded," that they were indeed at war with the chief "author of European aggression"-Adolf Hitler. The Finns welcomed the moral support, but pressed for greater assurances of more material aid. In Moscow the British and French League speeches were described in the Soviet press as having "exceeded all previous limits of cynicism and hypocrisy...
...this good work was promptly undone last week by developments at University of Wisconsin. Into the office of the dean of men irately marched Madison's Police Chief William H. McCormick. Chief McCormick threatened to arrest the members of Sigma Nu, Chi Psi and Alpha Delta Phi en masse. His complaint: Sigma Nus, Chi Psis and Alpha Delts had taken to whiling away evenings by shouting obscene names at one another. Worse, a fraternity man was caught in the act of painting on the sidewalk in front of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority house: "Poo on A E Phoo...
...sold 35 truck-mounted rigs to date at $50,000 apiece. The rig eliminated the cost ($650-$2,000) of putting up a drilling derrick, paid for itself by drilling 18 wells a year. It also set blond Larry O'Donnell, Shell Oil Co.'s chief mechanical engineer in the Texas-Gulf area, to thinking...
...elder J. (for John) Pierpont Morgan distrusted newspapermen, avoided "magazine men," and there is no record of his having high regard for any writers except the dead. Unlike the Rockefellers, the Morgans nave not gone in for personal pressagentry; neither have they unbosomed themselves to historians. Consequently, the chief books on the elder Morgan, able in other respects, are either obscure or theatrical on the interesting question of how Morgan felt about being Morgan...