Word: groton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis has since stated that he never will come back to Harvard. He now "works the prep schools--St. Mark's, Groton, Milton, and so on. Those are the places the guys got a lot of dough...
...Groton (Tentative...
...small fry indeed compared to such vast purveyors of war materials as France's Comité des Forges and Schneider-Creusot, Germany's Krupp, Britain's Vickers-Armstrong, Czechoslovakia's Skoda. First companies called before Senator Nye's committee were Electric Boat Co. of Groton, Conn, (submarines) and Driggs Ordnance & Engineering Co. (antiaircraft guns). Those who expected to hear the cannons roar had to content themselves with a volley of cap pistols. The business ethics of these companies might be low but their volume of trade and general influence in world affairs was even lower...
...Bank, N. J., has been awarded the Lionel de Jersey Studentship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England. The studentship, established by the Associated Harvard Clubs, gives a year of study at Cam- bridge, The scholar lives in the room which John Harvard is supposed to have occupied. Whitney prepared at Groton, He has been on the University Football Team, and the University Wresting Team; has been captain of the University Rugby Team, holder of a John Harvard Scholarship, vice-president of his Junior Class and a member of the Permanent Class Committee. His field is the history and literature of England...
Next day at Groton the President lunched with other old boys, attended a baseball game and in the evening addressed a dinner in honor of Dr. Peabody. At midnight the presidential special set out from Worcester again and next morning the Roosevelts detrained at their home, Hyde Park. There the President took a Sunday's rest, drove out with Mrs. Roosevelt to view the crops growing on his ancestral acres...