Word: gloveman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Littauer School, endowed with $2,000,000 by Gloveman Lucius Nathan Littauer of Gloversville, N. Y. a year and a half ago (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935), will be the first formal attempt by a U. S. university to provide training for public servants. Such a school was the lifetime dream of President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell whose standard work on The Government of England laments the absence of a U. S. counterpart to the university-trained British Civil Service. After accepting the gift of Gloveman Littauer, who once sat in Congress (1897-1907), Chemist Conant appointed a steering committee headed...
Harvard's long-legged Yankee President James Bryant Conant is rapidly proving himself as able a money-getter as his canny predecessor, Abbott Lawrence Lowell. While pocketing with one hand the $2,000,000 gift of Gloveman Lucius Nathan Littauer for a Graduate School of Public Administration (TIME, Dec. 23), he dashed off with the other an appeal for Harvard's Three Hundredth Anniversary Fund. The Fund will be used partly for fat, new scholarships, partly to establish University Professorships. The "roving professors" may work where they choose, breaking down the artificial barriers between fields. Rich Harvardmen were...
...York, ended by founding Littauer Brothers. Son Lucius went to Harvard where he made close friends with Theodore Roosevelt, played football, rowed on the crew, began his philanthropies by helping classmates through college. Graduating in 1878, he presently took over and built up his father's business. Gloveman Littauer's own career as a public servant began in 1897 when his glovemaking neighbors sent him to Congress. For the next ten years he faithfully pursued their interests by working for a higher tariff on gloves...
...Gloveman Littauer conceived the idea of a Harvard School of Public Administration quite independently of Harvard authorities. To him, as to many another, the demands of the New Deal revealed the paucity of first-rate civil servants...