Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene as is onetime Morgan Partner Thomas Sovereign Gates who took charge of Pennsylvania's big, down-at-heel University two years ago. From its board of trustees Princeton had drafted the lumbering, plainspoken, understanding head of the country's second biggest life insurance company?Prudential Life's Edward Dickinson Duffield of the Class of 1892, descendant of Princeton's first president, Jonathan Dickinson, son of Rev. Thomas Duffield who taught in Princeton for 56 years, brother of Princeton's longtime (1901-30) Treasurer Henry Green Duffield. He would be in Princeton whole Tuesdays and Saturday mornings (inevitably staying over...
...Moore asked the State Legislature during its last session to consider reorganizing the New Jersey government for economy. A Democrat, he was snubbed by the Republican legislators. Last week he removed the matter from politics. Mentioning "Princeton's unselfish devotion to public welfare," he wrote Acting President Edward Dickinson Duffield, invited Princeton's Department of Political Science and other "expert facilities" to survey New Jersey government, submit "nonpartisan and fully digested recommendations as to where vast savings might be made." Princeton accepted, planned to charge New Jersey nothing...
...Senator Dickinson presented to the convention its permanent chairman, Representative Bertrand Hollis Snell, Potsdam, N. Y. cheesemaker. Chairman Snell, plump and pink, was escorted to the platform by a delegation of ladies headed by Mrs. Alvin Hert, vice-chairwoman of the National Committee. From the first bang of his gavel, for which was later substituted a bungstarter, it was apparent that stout Mr. Snell had the convention in his round red fist...
...administrator of his estate. As president of both Southern Pacific and Union Pacific he fought savagely against Federal segregation. When defeated in 1913, he threw in his lot with Union Pacific. His only son, Robert Abercrombie, is a partner of Manhattan's Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co. Died. Herbert Dickinson Ward, 71, author, onetime editor of Youth's Companion, (merged in 1929 with American Boy), onetime editor of the Boston Post; in Portsmouth...
Even sober WTalter Lippmann of the New York Herald Tribune, whose Publisher Ogden Reid & wife were to be seen in the Press stand, was tickled by Keynoter Dickinson: "The historians admit," wrote he, "that even Abraham Lincoln made a few mistakes, but if the Senator's story is to be believed Herbert Hoover has been invincibly right from start to> finish. Such infallibility has not been known on earth, and when Mr. Hoover has his speech called to his attention by one of his secretaries he will feel either that the speech is nonsense or that the office of President...