Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Publisher Gannett was absent. Toastmaster was his good friend-bald, shrewd Surgeon Charles Gordon Heyd, former president of the American Medical Association. Dr. Heyd sounded the theme of the meeting: doctors and businessmen must form a political alliance against the New Deal. Chief speakers were Dr. Emerson, who delivered his stock arguments, the committee's treasurer, Sumner W. Gerard, who claimed that the New Deal was out to rook doctors for the sake of a "piece of cheese," and defeated Democratic Congressman Samuel Pettengill of Indiana, who delivered a full-throated 1940 campaign speech...
Legendre, as the picture star, is easily outstanding; he has a pleasant stage manner and he handles his lines and his songs with a confidence which shows considerable talent; close on his heels comes D. Gordon Halstead, '40, who plays the part of the sweet young thing to perfection. Philip C. Starr, '40, portrays the inevitable "other woman," sings all his songs as though he were letting out for dear old Maine, and rolls around the stage with a lascivious list to starboard; the combination is priceless...
...last fortnight Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of University of California, received a telephone call from his friend Mortimer Fleishhacker, a regent of the university and board chairman of the potent Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. He had heard, said Fleishhacker, that an unnamed bank had offered Dr. Sproul a job. "Will you take the presidency of Anglo California," asked Mr. Fleishhacker, "at $50,000 a year...
This week the longest (328 pages) English-language biography of Physicist Albert Einstein, now the most distinguished resident of Princeton, N. J., was published by H. Gordon Garbedian, a science writer on the staff of the New York Times.* Brightest spots in Mr. Garbedian's book are the Einstein anecdotes. Samples...
Tonight the Freshmen will meet the Junior Varsity in Commonwealth Armory. The lineups will be: Gordon Schall at number one, George Wilson at number two, and Lieutenant Cushman at defense for the J. V.'s, and John Ferry at number one, Tommy Higginson at number two, and Winny White at defense with Johnny Huges as alternate for the Freshmen...