Word: davids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toledo's public-spirited John David Biggers last week resigned his job as administrator of the U. S. Unemployment Census, resumed his job as president of big Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. (flat glass). To his friend Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Biggers left many a fact & figure underlining the extent and the why of unemployment. In a letter announcing that the census was complete, he wrote: "The most significant fact ... is that 2,740,000 more persons have entered the labor market since 1930 than were to have been expected from past experience. This entire increase is made...
When Publisher Annenberg revealed his determination to spend millions invigorating the Inquirer and make it more blatantly Republican than J. David Stern's Record was Democratic, Philadelphia's Old Dealers took hope. Soon Publisher Annenberg sat at the council tables, if not the dinner tables, of Pennsylvania's Republican aristocracy. By last week, lean, greying, 60-year-old Moe Annenberg had become the leading abomination of Pennsylvania Democrats and the central figure in three political-publishing battles...
...theory of natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin, visited the U. S. He lectured at a small agricultural college in Kansas, stayed at the house of the college president. One student who listened to him with particularly wide-eyed wonder was the president's son, David Fairchild, who had already resolved to be a botanist, was studying parasitic fungi and the wind-borne movements of Kansas tumbleweed...
After Wallace's unforgettable visit, David's Uncle Byron, a botanist, took him to Rutgers College for postgraduate work. He entered the Department of Agriculture in 1889, and in the next half century became one of the world's greatest plant hunters...
...first ten men to finish in the Varsity race were as follows: Pen Tuttle '40 (H), John Frederiksen (BU), Sam Wilson (BU), Roswell Brayton '39 (H), David Simboli '40 (H), Gene Clark '40 (H), Bob Nichols '41 (H), George Gardner '39 (H), Richard Wing '40 (H), Edmund Childs...