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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York. Since then a Harvard professor chiefly in name, he has been upped to the bank's deputy governorship, which the 1935 Banking Act converted into a vice-presidency. Last week, with a shrewd competitive stroke, Harvard's Conant tethered an elusive man and filled a difficult job. He appointed John Henry Williams as first dean of Harvard's slowly hatching Littauer School of Public Administration...
...half mile Lowell had opened up a length and a half Adams was holding tenaciously onto their length over Dunster, while it was already getting difficult to judge the open water back of them...
...spewing water ballast. At 7:20 p.m. precisely, two lines fell from the bow. A trained squad of Navy men grabbed one, a squad of civilians the other. Gently the two groups began coaxing the big bag to the mooring mast. The breeze teasing the tail made it more difficult than usual. Captain Pruss put the two Mercedes-Benz Diesel engines in the stern gondolas into reverse to keep from overshooting the mast. Witnesses noticed that the port motor was backfiring...
...would be difficult to think of a better selection than Harvard University has made in choosing John H. Williams to head its new Graduate School of Public Administration, which is to open its doors a year from this fall. Dr. William's background fits him admirably for the nature of the task that confronts him in conducting the formulation of plans for the school and in directing its activities...
...number six player is rather difficult to predict, for there is quite a battle going on for it. In fact, nine inetmen rate about even, including Stuart Wyeth, Elwood Henneman, Andy Page, Jim Arensberg Oliver Bolton, Art Brown, Don Gordon, Dick Grandin, and Adrian Malone. Wyeth, Henneman, and Page have all played at this position in at least one match...