Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cardinal staff walked out and published an opposition paper called the Staff Daily. Some 2,500 students signed an unsuccessful petition for a referendum to recall the board of control. And last week white-haired, conservative Dean George Clarke Sellery, who was Wisconsin's interim acting president after Glenn Frank's ouster last year, pushed the university into the national limelight again by charging that racial bigotry had reared its head on Wisconsin's campus. Said he: "When an effort to put [the Cardinal] into the hands of a different group for next year is supported...
...floor of the Naval Academy dormitory, let fly a glider he had built. The toy banked, swooped, hit a passing admiral on the head. The result: Donald Douglas left Annapolis abruptly, next year took up the study of aeronautics at M. I. T. After his graduation he worked for Glenn L. Martin, then one of the foremost U. S. airplane designers. First he was an engineer, then was put in charge of Martin's Cleveland factory, and finally, at the age of 25, became vice president and chief engineer. When he decided to strike...
Last October in Denver, delegates to the American Federation of Labor's 13th convention noticed that a familiar, pudgy figure from Milwaukee was often in the company of familiar, pudgy President William Green and his secretary, Miss Theodora Glenn. Insiders understood that Wisconsin Progressive Lawyer Joseph Padway was buttering up their president, assumed that he hoped to displace shrewd, moderate Charlton Ogburn as general counsel to the Federation...
...American shibboleth. Ushers were Wisconsin football players wearing red sweaters with huge white Ws. Originator, organizer and chief speaker at the meeting was Wisconsin's bespectacled 41-year-old Governor Philip Fox La Follette, whose supporters last spring ousted from the University's presidency Mr. Glenn Frank, the man who is now engaged in preparing a new charter for the Republican Party. Governor La Follette's purpose was to launch a national political organization with the definite political objective of electing a bloc of Congressmen this fall, with the probable objective of electing himself President...
...Democrats have not is a Committee of 200 to draw up a Program. Organized last autumn to appease Mr. Hoover, whose scheme of a mid-term convention was declined, the Committee's sole act to date has been to elect University of Wisconsin's onetime President Glenn Frank chairman. Whether the Committee should be listed as an asset or a liability will presumably remain undecided until next winter when it releases its report-of which, to the party's practical politicians, the only real virtue appears to be the fact that it will not be released until...