Word: comptons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most distinguished citizens held a momentous conference on the Rubber Scandal last week. The sun gleamed dully on the scabrous green of the old Andrew Jackson hobbyhorse statue. Serious, bespectacled James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University, shed his coat. So did aggressive, square-jawed Karl Taylor Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch-to whom the bench is a favorite office (TIME, May 12, 1941)-kept on his light summer jacket...
They talked in undertones for an hour, shooing away pigeons and inquisitive strollers. Then newsmen spotted Bernie Baruch's tall, white-topped frame, his long, crossed legs revealing the inevitable high black shoes. The conference came to a reluctant end. Presidents Conant and Compton put on their coats. Tall Bernie Baruch walked, in his deliberate, soldierly stride, back to his suite at the Carlton Hotel...
President Conant's appointment to the rubber board, consisting of Bernard Baruch, chairman of the board, and Karl Compton, president of M. I. T., came on the heel of a White House veto of a bill authorizing the manufacture of synthetic rubber from grain alcohol. President Roosevelt established the committee in order to survey the needs and possibilities and make an early recommendation...
Married. Betty Compton Walker, ex-musicomedy star, ex-wife of ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York City; and Theodore Knappen, consulting engineer; she for the fourth time; in Jersey City...
...conditions were approximately the same in both races, with the Varsity winning the Compton Cup for the sixth straight year by a length and a quarter and the Yardlings all but leaving their opponents hull down astern. When a crew gets that far ahead the tendency is for a general let-down, but apparently the Freshmen didn't relax very much, and the Varsity never moved for enough ahead to take their minds off the business at hand...