Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quaker T. Edmund Harvey, a British M. P., and James G. Douglas, a onetime...
John W. Joughin, Jr., Painesville, Ohio--Harvey High School, Painesville...
...crew the Freshman coach is Harvey Love who was a cox on one of the famous Washington University crews. When Tom Bolles, Freshman crew coach at Washington was brought here to succeed Charley whiteside, he brought Harvey with him. Together they have revolutionized Harvard rowing and brought it back to the place in the sun which it enjoyed in the days of old (you must have heard of those good old days when Dad was in college.) There is fall practice...
...epic novelist, certainly no apologist for the rich, Harvey O'Connor tells most of the Guggenheim saga in an objective, critically-cool prose. But occasionally readers may detect a slightly flabbergasted note of left-wing awe as he recounts how the seven sons of Jewish immigrant Meyer Guggenheim of Philadelphia made the family the second or third richest in the U. S., comparable in the scope of its clannish money-making only to the Rothschilds. Starting in 1847 as a pack peddler of household knickknacks along the muddy roads outside Philadelphia, vigorous, good-humored Meyer Guggenheim acquired a peddler...
...Although Harvey O'Connor assiduously notes scandals in connection with Guggenheim labor, politics, financing, the general impression communicated by The Guggenheims is that the family comes off better than do the principals of most comparable studies of recent years. What takes the curse off their name seems to be less Guggenheim philanthropy (the $7,000,000 Guggenheim Fund for needy artists, writers and scholars, the $2,500,000 Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, a dozen others) than a general Guggenheim picturesqueness. When Simon was accused of having bought his Senatorship, he answered blandly: "It is done...