Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Frederick Wolle 50 years ago had decided to go to college instead of becoming a drugstore clerk in his home town of Bethlehem, Pa., there probably never would have been founded the famed Bach Festival which was repeated for the 25th time in Bethlehem last week. Fred Wolle chose the drugstore job because he thought it would leave him more time for music. He had learned the rudiments of the organ by himself in the old Moravian Church. It was mostly on his drugstore earnings that he began formal lessons with blind David Duffield Wood of Philadelphia...
...from the Sophomore Class were announced last night by Vernon Munroe, Jr. '31, president of this year's Student Council, as having been nominated for election to the council of 1931-32. Seven Juniors and three Sophomores will be chosen from this group, and upon election will meet to chose three additional Juniors and two more Sophomores completing the quota of the council...
Leading the attack, Mr. Baldwin charged that Scot MacDonald when he came to power chose three dunderheads as his lieutenants in fighting unemployment. "A stranger trio than these three," cried the Conservative Leader, and his shot went home, "have not tried to get anywhere since the immortal party set out for Widdecombe Fair...
...Lorillard left a director's meeting to join a group of fun-loving friends, James Buchanan Duke said quietly: "I think I'll have to buy me some friends sometime." But like all great tycoons, he could surround himself with able, loyal subordinates. For his board of trustees he chose 15 men he knew well, all Southerners but one. Board president and largest in calibre is George Garland Allen, president of Duke Power Co., vice board-chairman of British-American Tobacco Co. Treasurer is W. C. Parker, long a member of Duke Power Co. Among other Duke trustees are: William...
...convenient laws. The Steelmen ate a luncheon provided by the Lackawanna railroad, and ratified a plan submitted by Mr. Taylor providing for compulsory retirement of all Steel's executives at a certain age. Chairman Taylor, a deeply religious man (like President Hoover he is a Quaker), chose as this age the Bible's three-score years and ten. In addition, the plan allowed for voluntary retirement at 65. Stockholders also heard optimistic talk about improving business conditions, of a reasonably good year even at present Steel prices if a large volume of production could be maintained...