Word: forde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Wales and Monmouthshire; and in West Cumberland by 10%-a record supposed to vindicate His Majesty's Government on the do-nothing charge. Next the House of Commons was told last week that the ?2,000,000 ($10,000,000) recently given by Lord Nuffield ("Henry Ford of Great Britain") to succor the Depressed Areas and as a personal tribute to Stanley Baldwin (TIME, Jan. 4) is going to be used by the Nuffield Trustees in conjunction with a scheme in which Government funds will be used to buy up to 25% of the capital stock...
...rose and a device suggesting the recipient's vocation, has gone to such Catholics as Alfred Emanuel Smith, Actress Margaret Anglin, Tenor John McCormack, Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady, now Mrs. Macaulay. Last week, for its 1937 award, Notre Dame chose a Catholic pedagog: Dr. Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford, 63, chairman of the department of Romance Languages at Harvard University...
...vigorous, professorial man who was born in Cambridge and has taught at Harvard 41 years, Dr. Ford has been decorated by France, Italy, Rumania and Spain for his zeal in spreading their languages, literatures and histories. He has written or edited more than 20 textbooks and anthologies, is editor of Henry Holt & Co.'s Spanish series, has been president of the Italian Historical Society of Massachusetts, the Dante Society and (1931-33) the solemn American Academy of Aris & Sciences...
...true perspective. From front to back, a diorama's figures and objects diminish in size, merging imperceptibly with a curved, painted background. Diorama Corp. is proud of its historical and pictorial accuracy, has done much work for the Smithsonian Institution as well as for such firms as Ford and Sears Roebuck. Its President Edward Heckler Burdick conceived the idea of doing Christ in Gethsemane, to be followed by a half-dozen other Biblical scenes for possible exhibition at the New York World's Fair...
...Hines Page, 2nd 148 Curtis Prout 146 Francis Gorham Brigham, Jr. 138 William Bernard Berssenbrugge 132 Edward Lorraine Young, 3rd 125 Charles Wheeler O'Conor 116 David Blanding McIntosh 112 Lorrin Ewart Woodman 93 Frederick Philip Glike 80 Forrest Theodore Foss 71 For Class Day Committee: (7) George Steven Ford 379 Thomas Herbert Bilodeau...