Word: harold
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...hand to clear the ground and pull the stumps of controversy were such eminent gentlemen as William Green of the American Federation of Labor, Thomas Kennedy of the United Mine Workers, Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, Harold W. Story of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., not to mention a small army of professors, physicians, health officials and social workers. Some of the conferees were so excited by the prospect of the broad field before them that they wanted to gallop right out and start plowing before the President had determined the distance or direction of the furrows. One such...
...Current best-selling (in England) apologia: Curzon the Last Phase, 1919-1925, by Harold Nicolson (U. S. publishers, Houghton Mifflin...
Again, again & again the telephone on Professor Harold Clayton Urey's littered desk rang one afternoon last week. "Thank you," said Dr. Urey to friends, students, colleagues. "Thank you....Thank you....Thank you." Someone brought into his office on Columbia University's campus a woodcock captured on a windowsill of the chemistry building. Dr. Urey suggested the bird be taken out of the city and freed in the woods. He was in a jovial mood. Word had just arrived from Stockholm that he had been awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry...
Born in Walkerton, Ind., Harold Clayton Urey was left fatherless when he was 6. His mother and later his stepfather helped him through University of Montana, from which he emerged a zoologist. The War shunted him into chemistry. Later he took his Ph. D. at University of California, studied in Copenhagen under Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr. He is married, has two daughters. He is a neat, square, plump-faced man who likes to extemporize on the piano, make charcoal sketches. Once he smoked two packages of cigarets per day. Now he chews gum instead...
...Studebaker's longtime President Albert Russel Erskine shot himself to death in his South Bend home. Active direction of the company had already passed to the two vice presidents, Paul Gray Hoffman, an able salesmanager who first made a fortune for himself as a distributor in California, and Harold S. Vance, in charge of production. With Ashton Bean of White, they formed a triumvirate of receivers who never let their organization slip an inch...