Word: hancockers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Robert Silliman Hillyer, 48, 1933's Pulitzer Prize poet, Harvard's successor as Boylston professor of rhetoric to the famed, retired Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland; by Dorothy Hancock Tilton Hillyer, 36; after 17 years of marriage; in Reno...
Those who insisted that the report was as significant as the famed Baruch rubber report exaggerated. Baruch, assisted by Byrnes's consultant John Hancock, had not intended to make an overall manpower study. At Czar Jimmy's request, he had sat down with aircraft makers* on the bench in Washington's Lafayette Park, and there had worked out a plan to avert a disastrous slump in West Coast airplane production. His recommendations, to set up a labor budget and balance West Coast manpower with production by funneling workers into essential plants, have already been put into effect...
...beginning! Once again there is an atmosphere of impending doom managing low over Briggs Hall and this time it ain't kiddin'! No paltry little Saturday exam hangs negligibly over our evell-crammed heads. No warm-up session with Ensign Rosalie Jensen, the successor of the noble J. A. Hancock, not yet with Quactham, the inconsequential c-4-D Storekeeper, has us in our present state of nerves this time it's the real thing, and we're not fooling either. By the time this goes to press some of us will know where the powers-that-be have seen...
Poor John Hancock! As frisky as a cocker spaniel three weeks old when he walked into Carpenter last Saturday morning, he drizzled out with all the give of a wet dish rag after one look at the standings so blatantly evident on each class bulletin board...
...WAVES are about to come ashore again. For eight weeks we've struggled bravely--although sometimes it looked like a losing fight--with the pay accounts of the USS California. For eight weeks who have lived in a world populated by out stalwart hero, J. A. Hancock, the vaguely beneficent presence of the CO, Brigham Scott, and by the more or less sinister though shadowy figure of Varnell Richardson, Julius Dortch, and bad old Luther Leinuel Green. We've figured their messman pay, their court-martial fines, their SKMC, AOD, S and FSD, and many other alphabetical sins and virtues...