Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee is trying to fill gaps in concentration field possibilities, but "is proceeding conservatively," Professor Pease revealed. "Our work has consisted of approving general plans of combinations rather than the schedules of individual students," he added...
...some 700 cadets. He would have seen a parade ground of 14 acres, 17 stone school buildings on a lush-green campus, 19 dormitories and residences, modern engineering laboratories, the whole plant valued at $2,500,000. He would have seen the grey-coated cadets marching in review before General George Catlett Marshall, first V. M. I. alumnus to be chosen Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army. He would have heard a Northern President exhorting the students to "live up to your great heritage...
...George B. St. George wore gold tassels. Mrs. John Hay Whitney, sitting with U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, sported her famed, chandeliery diamond earrings. Mrs. Bronson Williams' velveteen jacket was tufted with patent-leather buttons, like the upholstery of a lady's phaeton. Mrs. John W. Stafford carried a Cellophane evening bag exposing her gewgaws. Mrs. Byron C. Foy was completely bareback...
Friends of the Supreme Court in this case were SEC, ICC, Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson. Mr. Douglas thought the Court's friends were right, that the common stockholders had pulled a fast one on the preferred, ruled that they could get their foot inside the door of the reorganized company only if they paid their way in with new money. The decision thus strengthened the hands of bondholders, preferred stockholders in future reorganizations. Wrote Mr. Justice Douglas...
Died. George Denver Guggenheim, 32, millionaire bachelor son and only remaining child of Philanthropist Simon Guggenheim; by his own hand (rifle) in a Manhattan hotel. Member of the executive committee and a director of American Smelting and Refining Co., of which his father is president, a director of General Cable Corp., trustee of a $1,000,000 trust fund, George Guggenheim suffered from a nervous disorder, had recently tried to slash his wrists. When his brother, John Simon, died in 1922 of mastoiditis, his parents established in his memory the famed Guggenheim Foundation (for international study), now capitalized...