Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small but sternly independent preparatory school is Gunnery, which has perched in the Berkshires near Washington, Conn. since 1850. Founded by an abolitionist named Frederick William Gunn, Gunnery still warns parents that "luxury, waste, and soft living are contrary to the spirit of the school," although such rich boys as Robert Lessing Rosenwald of Abingdon, Pa. now go there. In its long career Gunnery has had only three headmasters. Last week it was handed over by retiring William Hamilton Gibson to a fourth educator who can well preserve its austere tradition: Rev. Tertius van Dyke, Headmaster Gibson's brother...
...just recovered from the election of a new president, Yale University last week heard that it would have to start looking for a new dean. Clarence Whittlesey ("Clare") Mendell, 53, unexpectedly announced that he would retire with President James Rowland Angell in June. Yaleman Mendell, who succeeded famed, crusty Frederick Scheetz Jones in 1927 and has since done a notable job in modernizing Yale's course requirements and in adjusting New Haven life to Repeal, explained that he wanted to get back to his other Yale work as Dunham Professor of Latin Language & Literature and master of Branford College...
...Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington last week was President Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Not afoul of SEC was the country's biggest oil company. The Commission merely wanted Mr. Teagle to answer a question which he himself had asked in a letter to Frederick H. Bedford Jr., a working Standard director: Why did Standard "happen to be so directly interested" in a protective committee for defaulted bonds of the Republic of Colombia...
...Frederick A. Stokes...
Iowa patriots who revere the Scott County birthplace of "Buffalo Bill" were shocked to hear that the Bologna newspaper Resto del Carlino had "discovered" that Colonel William Frederick Cody was really Giovanni Tambini, born in Barbigarezzo about 1840 and "a typical Italian ... full of Fascist courage and daring...