Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mount Pleasant, N. Y. on the estate of Mrs, Harold Fowler McCormick Jr. ("Fifi" Stillman), a pack of hungry dogs attacked a herd of sheep, slew 18. Extra guards were posted around the neighboring estate of Mr. McCormick's grandfather, John Davison Rockefeller...
...scholar must write a thesis making at least one original contribution to human knowledge. This grows harder (or sillier) every year. Students thrilled last week to read about Thomas Walsh Jr. of Chicago, a student who gave his life for his Ph.D. Chemistry Student Walsh and his friend Harold Foard of West Virginia left Huanuco, Peru in November to explore the unknown headwaters of the Paute River in Southern Ecuador, to gather data for Walsh's doctorate. For two years they had been in Oroya, Peru on the staff of New York's Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp...
Last week Harold Foard returned to Peru alone with a letter. Two weeks after they left their Indian porters, the explorers' collapsible boat smashed up in some rapids. Overboard went duffle bags & data. The two men were alone in a steaming, fever-soaked jungle where only the birds and the tops of the writhing vines saw the sun. Thomas Walsh died in his friend's arms and was buried in a narrow trench scooped out of the rotten ground. Harold Foard was picked up by Indians and carried on to Monzon, Peru. The letter he carried said...
...insure permanency for his policies and management. This is accomplished now by Corporation Securities Co. and Insull Utility Investments, Inc. both large investors in his group and at the top of the pyramid. Corporation Securities is controlled by three trustees, Mr. Insull, his son Samuel Insull Jr. and Harold Leonard Stuart of Halsey, Stuart & Co. The two companies have bank loans of around 80 millions scarcely covered by the present market value of their holdings. Notes of Insull Utility Investments sold at around 2 5/8% of par last week, indicating the general feeling that nothing will be done for these...
...Portland, Maine, History; Merle Fainsod, St. Louis, Missouri, Government; Edward S. Gilfallan, Jr., Kalamazoo, Michigan, Chemistry; Victor M. Hamm, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, English; George W. Neff, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Architecture; Robert E. Pike, Cambridge, Romance Philology; Willard Van O. Quine, Akron, Ohio, Philosophy; Alan R. Swoozy '29, Wilton, New Hampshire, Economics; Harold E. Wethey, Port Washington, Long Island, New York, Fine Arts...