Word: fordham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to Western Reserve University, took her M.Sc. in applied social sciences in 1926. After three years at the convent she became supervisor of the Children's Bureau in Cleveland, joined the faculty of Western Reserve in 1929. In 1934 she went to New York's Fordham University as associate professor in the School of Social Service. Sympathetic, conscientious and reliable, she began to attract the attention of her Jesuit superiors. Last week, at 42, Anna King became dean of the school, first woman ever to be appointed dean of a Jesuit institution...
Father Robert Ignatius Gannon, 46, is halfway through his six-year term as head of Fordham, biggest of the nation's Catholic universities. Like its football teams, Fordham is rough, tough, commercial. President Gannon, a onetime English and philosophy teacher, believes there is nothing wrong with Fordham football or fascism in Italy, plenty wrong with Progressive Education...
Last week, as college baseball reached the homestretch of its 80th season, major-league scouts reviewed the year's outstanding players. No. 1 pitcher of the season has been Fordham's Hank Borowy, son of a New Jersey hat manufacturer, who has been defeated only once in 13 starts-and is Fordham's best batter to boot. Against Yale last week Right-hander Borowy performed in routine fashion: he struck out ten men, allowed only four hits, shut out his opponents 5-to-0 for Fordham's 16th victory of the season. In three years...
Another Tommy Corcoran (Thomas Louis Joseph Corcoran) is assistant counsel and adviser to Governor Herbert Henry Lehman of New York. Thomas L. J. is a lawyer (taught in Fordham University Law School from 1934 until last year), and a braintruster in his own right...
There the likeness ends. Tommy G is 38; Tommy L. J. is 31. Tommy G. is a bachelor; Tommy L. J. is married and the father of a 9-year-old son. Tommy G. disdains competitive athletics; Tommy L. J. once a 200-lb. guard on Fordham's football team, still loves golf, baseball, handball...