Word: gerard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Springfield; Leonidas H. Demeter '39, Boston; Jose K. P. de Varon '38, Jamaica Plain; David Dove, South Sudbury; James C. Eaton '39, West Newton; Lawrence F. Ebb '39, Dorchester; Stanley M. Epstein '39, New Bedford; James Etmekjian '39, Brighton; George E. Filion '38, Salem; Pasquale F. Frisoli '40, Cambridge; Gerard G. C. Galassi '39, Cambridge; Arnold S. Gale '40, Brookline; Anthony Galluccio '39, Cambridge...
Then came the businessmen: President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck, President Gerard Swope of General Electric, Chairman Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, President Henry C. Turner of Turner Construction Co., Banker S. Sloan Colt. When the stock-market promptly registered a hopeful advance after these conferences, it was so much like old times that the New York Sun printed a parallel series of 1929 and 1937 headlines. In the Hoover tradition, but not the Hoover manner, the President let it be known that he hoped to end the decline not by Government spending but by doing...
HATH NOT THE POTTER-Maxence van der Meersch (translated by Gerard Hopkins)-Viking...
Christened the "Vertaplane" by its inventor, Gerard Post Herrick (distant kin of onetime Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick) of New York City, the craft has a strong pylon with a vertical mast which holds the top wing firmly in place for ordinary flying, and when released allows it to revolve on a bearing for a gyro landing. By virtue of a starting mechanism in the wing which starts rotation on the ground, the Vertaplane can make a gyro takeoff as well as a gyro landing. It weighs 1,700 lb., has a 125-h.p. motor. Said happy Inventor Herrick...
Returning belatedly from the Coronation of George VI, James Watson Gerard, Wartime U. S. Ambassador to Germany, commented, ''The Americans who wore knee breeches at the ceremony showed a fine set of legs. There wasn't a knocking knee or bandy leg in the whole outfit...