Word: hart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, when they met again, United Fruit's directors were quite accustomed to shocks. They were not surprised, therefore, when President Cutter tendered his resignation. They immediately elected him board chairman, an office which had not previously existed. To be president they chose their fellow director Francis Russell Hart, Boston banker (Old Colony Trust Co.), onetime U. S. consul in Colombia, historian, gourmet. As president Mr. Hart would not interfere with Sam Zemurray's direction of United Fruit; as board chairman Mr. Cutter could...
United Fruit's new President Hart is learned, studious, convivial. After leaving M. I. T. he tried farming in Jamaica, later managed the Cartagena-Magdalena Railway in Colombia (which United Fruit has just taken over from the government). In 1908 he became a director of Old Colony and United Fruit. He is famed for his ability to mix Jamaica's famed planters' punch (one part lime, two parts syrup, three parts rum), is a moving spirit in the Club of Odd Volumes, whose headquarters is a former stable on Beacon Hill. He has written three books...
...AMERICAN JITTERS-Edmund Wilson-Scribner ($2.50). EXPRESSION IN AMERICA - Ludwig Lewisohn-Harper ($4). DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON-Ernest Hemingway-Scribner ($3.50). FOCH- Capt. B. H. Liddell Hart- Little, Brown ($4). GEORGE GERSHWIN'S SONGBOOK - illustrated by Alajalov - Simon & ($5)- GROVER CLEVELAND - Allan Nevins Dodd, Mead ($5). HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, Vol. I. - Leon Trotsky - Simon & Schuster ($4). INTERPRETATIONS - Walter Lippmann Macmillan ($2.50). JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU - Matthew Josephson - Harcourt, Brace ($5). THE JOURNAL OF ARNOLD BENNETT Vols. I & II- Viking ($4 each). THE LETTERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE edited by Aldous Huxley - Viking ($5). LIVES - Gustav Eckstein - Harper...
...Pittsfield, Richard L. Eveleigh '34 of Bridgeport. Connecticut, Ernest Fasano '35 of Long Branch, New Jersey, Sydney S. Gellis '34 of Claremont, New Hampshire, Allan G. Goldenberg '34 of Minneapolis, Minneasota, Charles F. Hass '35 of Chicago, Illinois, Ernest H. Haies '33 of Bronxville, New York, Holes C. Hart, Jr. '35 of Mystic, Connecticut, Edward Y. Hartshorne, Jr. '33 of Haverford, Pennsylvania, Harry M. Hoffheimer '34 of Cincinnati, Ohio, Richard D. Holder '34 of Memphis, Tennessee, Edward P. Hollis '33 of Swampscott, John B. Howard '33 of Edgewood, Pennsylvania, John N. M. Howells '34 of Kittery Point, Maine, Robert...
...Behrens '34, L.A. Cook '34, E.N. Cooper '34, H.H. Englander '34, C.H. Hageman, Jr. 33, H.W. Hart, Jr. '33, T.K. Jenkins '34, G.K. Mateyo '34, Isador Miller '35, R.B. Schlatter '34, C.K. Seyfert '33, Samuel Sonenfield '34, A.W. Todd '35, R.W. Vilter '33, Israel Walzer '34, Joseph Walzer '34, B.A. Winter...