Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record smashing Glenn Cunningham, "little" Don Lash, or Earl Meaddows, but Harvard Sophomore James Lightbody walked off with the John J. Hallahan Memorial trophy for the outstanding performance of the B. A. A. Meet Saturday night. Lightbody drove the Yale quartet into the ground when he anchored his team to a win, running his quarter in 49.3 seconds...
Thus last week spoke Dr. Harold Glenn Moulton, president of the Brookings Institution, before the annual meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. No mere plaint against labor was Dr. Moulton's argument. It was in fact but the converse of a familiar thesis, that higher wages and shorter hours are necessary to compensate for technological progress. The cause of 1937's slump, said Dr. Moulton, was that there had been not enough increase in productive efficiency to compensate for the raising of wages and the simultaneous lowering of working hours...
...subject he may subsequently take up, be it political, educational, or merely the weather, is bound to be called in question by political smear-artists whose job it is to throw mud. This mud cannot help spattering the University and sullying its name in the academic field. Glenn Frank, for instance, may be a fine politician, and a great discovery for the Republican Party, but his activities did not redound to the advantage of Wisconsin. Nor do Nicholas Murray Butler's annual speeches to the economic royalists in Southampton add to the credit of Columbia...
Eleanor is on safari in the jungle country with her father (George Barbier), her mother (Hedda Hopper) and her fiance (George Meeker). A swarthy turbaned nabob named Ben Alleu Bey (C. Henry Gordon), who keeps 100 wives in,a jungle palace, marks her for 101. But he reckons without Glenn Morris...
...years ago Germany's Count Hermann Keyserling made a triumphal tour of the U. S., buoyed up by his best-selling Travel Diary of a Philosopher, fees reaching as high as $1,000 a lecture, and praise such as Glenn Frank's: "Keyserling may turn out to be a John the Baptist of a new Western civilization." On that trip hostesses received printed instructions on how to entertain the worldly prophet: 1) rooms should be cool; 2) a supper should be served after each lecture; 3) champagne should be provided; 4) oysters should be served, but no vegetables...