Word: conn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also an educator who was once an artilleryman, outranking Lt. Kitson by having been a major during the war. Like Dr. Kitson, President Engelhardt moved East from the University of Minnesota. Removal to New England is by way of being a homecoming for him. He was born at Naugatuck, Conn., 52 years ago, studied at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, at Yale, Harvard and Columbia. Leaving an instructorship at Yale in 1909, he acquired a thorough acquaintanceship with public schools by teaching in them and administering them in New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois...
...George Sloan to a sour apple tree." An apostle of NRA cooperation, he predicted "inflation, chaos" on its demise. Since his resignation from the Institute in 1935, he has made money as a selling agent for textile manufacturers, has spent more time at his summer place in swank Greenwich, Conn. Now 43, tall, dapper, greying, he is correctly affable and forceful, smart as a whip. In an editorial entitled "Big Business Looks Ahead," the Wall Street Journal sermonized on his election to Steel's board as "an example of the increasing consciousness on the part of business management...
...Kent, Conn, one Samuel McWhinnie, 42, was charged with burglary for having broken into a shed on the Hyde Park estate of Miss Ellen Roosevelt, cousin of the President, and stealing four small sailboat models which Franklin Roosevelt carved with his own hands...
Married, Anne Rebe Wertheim, niece of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., daughter of liberal Banker Maurice Wertheim who supports The Nation; and Dr. Louis Langman, Manhattan physician; in Greenwich, Conn...
...Harris called in George Kaufman to doctor Hard Pan and George Kaufman, the Great Collaborator, called in Laurence Stallings (collaborator of What Price Glory?) to help. Hard Pan was rewritten three times and renamed Eldorado. It was opened in 1931 with a split week in New Haven and Hartford, Conn. It then limped into Newark and folded up. Messrs. Kaufman & Stallings, who were to have received one-third of the profits-if-any, were out their time. Messrs. Polisuk & Harris were out $10.000 apiece. Mr. Harris took his loss quietly. Mr. Polisuk sued Mr. Kaufman on the ground that Kaufman...