Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arraigned in Cambridge after ramming a safety island last month (TIME, Dec. 28), Harvard Freshman Glenn Frank Jr., 18, son of the University of Wisconsin's ousted president, was fined $5 for operating an automobile without a license, acquitted of drunken and reckless driving...
...with George Middleton. brother-in-law of Governor La Follette, on the day Frank's election to head the University of Wisconsin was announced. "Don't get your neck into that," he quoted Middleton as warning him. "It's against the wishes of the family."* Glenn Frank then sat down, the roll was called, and his academic neck was chopped Stoy...
...that of one celebrated Progressive steamrollering another. Had Phil La Follette been a Tory Governor, the outcry from U. S. Liberals would undoubtedly have been prodigious, for along with his smooth exterior and the careful polish which has removed all trace of his native Queen City, Mo.. Glenn Frank has. with facile tongue and pen, built up for himself a shining reputation as a clear-sighted, forward-looking, modern-minded Thinker...
...arch-conservative educator called affectionately by some, contemptuously by others, "The Old Tory." In 1917 he and most of the rest of Wisconsin's faculty signed a round robin denouncing old Father "Fighting Bob" La Follette for his pacifism. La Follette adherents never forgave him, hinted that Glenn Frank should fire him as soon as he became president...
...Sellery unsympathetic, sought to have the regents oust him. The move, however, was never brought before the board. Making it plain that he did not expect or wish to hold his new job more than a semester, Acting President Sellery called the faculty together, found that the majority felt Glenn Frank had got about what he deserved...