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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This venerable body, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1727, became suddenly rich in 1931 when Dr. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose of Philadelphia, geologist and mining engineer, left it nearly $5,000,000. It distributes income from this hoard as grants in aid of U. S. research. President of A. P. S. is Roland Sletor Morris, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Japan. Mr. Morris is a busy man. He has a law practice, teaches international law at University of Pennsylvania, is interested in sociology, Pennsylvania politics, collecting U. S. debts from Russia. Three years ago he asked Conklin to take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old-Fashioned | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...Chicago, Alfa C. Day, elevator operator in the Hollander furniture warehouse, was carrying several passengers to an upper floor. Outside on Fullerton Avenue, a sewer explosion sent a manhole coyer soaring five stories in the air, arching down through the warehouse skylight, crashing into the elevator shaft, killing Alfa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 14, 1937 | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

After winning the first race and finishing second in the second, Fullerton collapsed and was only able to pick up a pair of elevenths in the remaining tilts. Rousmaniere, meanwhile, kept going along at the same speed garnering two fourths and two fifths against competition in his division...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yachtsmen Finish Fourth in Intercollegiate Boat Races | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Cornell took the title with 89 points while M.I.T., the defending titlists, and Brown also finished ahead of the Crimson skippers, E. Dwight Fullerton, Jr. '37 and James A. Rousmaniere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yachtsmen Finish Fourth in Intercollegiate Boat Races | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Harvard's Yacht Club, Edward D. Fullerton, Jr. '37, Commodore, unfuris its sails in a Frost-bite Regatta with ten other college crows in the Charles River Basin at one o'clock Sunday. Edward B. Hutton '39, will tend the sheets in Fullerton's dinghy, while Chandler Hovey, Jr. '39, and James A. Rousmaniere '40, of local and Long Island Sound fame respectively, man a second boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frost-Bite Regatta Sunday Includes Ten College Crews | 10/30/1936 | See Source »

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