Word: clubman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, "the U. S.'s most exclusive club," Clubman Bulkley, jovial, substantial, friendly, fits easily and well. But Senator Bulkley has not fulfilled his youthful Congressional promise. His voting record, which has hopped back & forth over the New Deal fence, can be classified as either independent or puzzling. He has voted against such New Deal measures as gold devaluation, NIRA, the Black 30-Hour-Week Bill, TVA, AAA (both 1935 and 1938), Soil Conservation, the Guffey Coal Act, Wages & Hours. But he stood with the New Deal on both the bills Franklin Roosevelt chose to regard as tests...
Setting records is nothing new for Mrs. Howe. As Dorothy lona Campbell, she won the U. S. women's golf championship in 1909, the year she came to the U. S. from her native Scotland. As Dorothy Campbell Hurd (after marrying Clubman Jack V. Hurd of Pittsburgh), she established the greatest record of any woman golfer in the world: three Scottish championships, two British championships, three U. S. championships, three Canadian championships, and winner of an average of 20 tournaments a year since she won her first prize in 1895. Now married to a Princeton banker, Dorothy lona Campbell...
Dick Dorson, not up to par, lost to the University Clubman Hoehn, 3-0. Alvah Sulloway dipped his flag to Withington, 3-1. Johnny Develin, winning again with his powerful drives, overcame Gunn, 3-1. Dan Burbank, playing well, edged Sullivan 3-2. George B. Blake lost to Monier in another close fought match...
...balancing delicately between Harvard indifference and communal comfort have organized social life without cramping the individual." He likes the idea of the cross-system even if there are others who don't. His argument is direct and sustained, though sometimes with prophecy: "the House plan has made the Clubman, old-style, archaic. Diehards who will not follow their more reasonable associates to Eliot and Dunster are responsible for a growing spirit of intolerance which is new to Harvard . . . Anti-pacifism, anti-radicalism, and anti-Semitism all were born in the Clubs . . . And today the best clubmen are virtually indistinguisable from...
...challenger for the America's Cup, taught him to fly, but up until two years ago he preferred to streak across the New Jersey flats in a custom-built Mercedes-Benz. Today the Mercedes-Benz is in the barn and Mr. Grubb drives a Plymouth. Horseman, clubman, he is one of Wall Street's best-dressed brokers...