Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main tent, when the eating was over, the orthodox Republican audience received orthodox Republican pabulum. Chief speakers were New York's Representative (former Senator) James W. Wadsworth and National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton. Excerpts: Mr. Wadsworth-"Wherever we turn, we are confronted with Federal money, billions of it. It is used brazenly in tempting the States and their subordinate municipalities into acquiescence. To put it boldly, much of this tempting should be called bribery-the bribery of an unsuspecting people into acquiescence." Mr. Hamilton-"In less than four years Congress has appropriated for WPA use alone the gigantic...
...Former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 38-year-old Landis came to Harvard to head the Law School last fall...
Replacing the old Hemenway gymnasium, razed in February to make room for the construction of the Littauer Center, a new Hemenway gymnasium has been built, located on Massachusetts Avenue, scarcely a stone's throw from its former site...
Among those who have been prominently named for the post are Clark Hodder '25, this year's assistant coach, John Garrison '31, former Harvard and Olympic star, and George Ford '37, captain two years ago. In the professional ranks Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '16 is understood to have looked over George Owen '23, M. I. T. coach, Hugo Harrington, Olympics head, Cooney Weiland, Boston Bruins and assistant coach here in 1932, Fred Hitchman, lately of the Boston Brunis, and Bun Cook and Frank Boucher, of the New York Rangers...
...tape cutting War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha wanted to promote young men with new ideas. The retirement age for the two highest ranks having been cut from 67 to 60, and of major generals from 62 to 57, the Army Gazette simply listed the retirements. The 13, including two former members of the Army Council and an Aide-de-Camp General to the King, were ushered out to keep the army up-to-date, and no one uttered the saddest word, "good...