Word: groton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Putnam of New York and Groton School; Matthews Hall...
Still the Isolationists struggled on, insisting on the closest inspection of the gift horses' teeth. For four and a half hours West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt bellowed opposition, drawing breath only to mimic stridently Franklin Roosevelt's Groton-Harvard accent and inflection. North Carolina's Reynolds charged that Stalin sank the Athenia. But only the stubbornest Senate orator could ignore the fact that the galleries lay almost empty day after day. Nobody came to hear the Great Debate; though on one day hundreds flocked to see Fritz Kuhn before the Dies Committee. This week...
Remarkable is Concrete Man Turner, who looks more like a Groton headmaster than a building contractor, for his achievement in keeping his staff together in spite of the vicissitudes of the volatile U. S. construction industry. Including Vice President (for Philadelphia) H. C. Turner Jr., who has only ten years' worth of service stripes, 13 executives (average age: 52) of this 37-year-old company average 26½ years with the company. Down, the line, 25 superintendents average 17 years, 70 foremen 19 years. No small achievement is this in an industry which must count on starving three years...
Married. Leverett Saltonstall Jr., 22 Harvard graduate, eldest of Massachusetts Governor Leverett Saltonstall's five children (three boys, two girls); and Nancy Smith, 21, Groton, Mass, socialite; in Groton...
Just whom he damned was not made clear last week. Naval specialists lay down the specifications for submarines. The prosperous and secretive Electric Boat Co. builds some in its yards at Groton, Conn., consults closely on the construction of others in Navy Yards. The Navy found that operations of the air valve and ballast tanks could be interlocked for safety. But it also found that the machinery would be so bulky as to decrease a submarine's combat value, therefore decided (as usual in submarine designing) that military necessity came first...