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President Baxter told how more than a decade ago, he and six other potential House Masters drew lots from the pocket of Professor' Chester Noyes Greenough for the headship of each House, "and I was particularly lucky to get Adams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams, Lowell Honor Conant, Baxter, Whitehead at Dinners | 10/28/1941 | See Source »

Riotous sabbaths at Cambridge University had brought his short undergraduate career to a degreeless close, but he promptly and incongruously enough prepared a learned Latin tract on proper observance of the Lord's day. And it was the fame of this which won him the headship of the young college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SILHOUETTES | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

...Daring Young Man in Washington, who has been floating from right to left and voiceovers, with the greatest of ease, now seems to be clinging contentedly to the conservative rung. Indications all point to Roosevelt's occupancy of the headship of the conservative party, at no very distant date. We might even ask you to put this prediction of ours down in your own black and white for later verification. It's the old story of Elisha and Elljah, that is being re-enacted down in the nation's capital. Having sowed a few radical oats, Roosevelt will now accept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMONG THE WOLVES | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...invited to its headship a famed Scottish lawyer, son of a Scottish parson, Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy, co-author of the brilliant "Macmillan Report" of the British Treasury Committee on Finance & Industry. So sound and lucid was it that it became the only Blue Book ever published in Britain to net a profit. Second member of the Commission was another son of a Scottish parson, Sir Charles Addis, onetime director of the Bank of England. These two Scotsmen Premier Bennett balanced with two Canadian bankers, Sir William Thomas White and Beaudry Leman. To give Western Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Central Bank? | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

Totally unready to die, Chancellor Dollfuss was last week busily stuffing up the chinks in his ''Patriotic Front" coalition against Naziism. Already head of the army, police and gendarmerie, he took over the headship of Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg's "White Fascist" Heimwehr. In payment he made Prince von Starhemberg deputy chairman of the Patriotic Front. Thus he prevented the hot-headed Prince from going off half-cocked and had the Heimwehr men to help him break any strikes the Socialists may call. He dissolved the Socialist singing society, the Sängerbund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Reunion in Rome | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

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