Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Featuring the movie "Magic Key," a picture of the Ethyl-Dow Bromine extraction process, the Boylston Chemical Club will hold an open meeting in Mallinckrodt MB-12 at 8 o'clock tonight. Arthur B. Lamb '00, Erving Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Chemical Laboratories, will be the speaker...
...Robbins (Warren Delano Robbins' widow), assistant chief of the State Department's Foreign Service Buildings Office ($6,500). Two others, Uncle Frederick A. Delano (Vice-Chairman of National Resources Committee & Chairman of National Park & Planning Commission), and Cousin William A. Delano (member of National Park & Planning Commission) hold honorary posts without...
...Workers Alliance of America, union of unemployed and relief workers, decided last spring to hold its fourth annual convention in Cleveland, where people who could not get relief were then fighting in the streets for food (TIME, May 16). Last week 500 Alliance delegates assembled in Cleveland's Public Auditorium. They did not look like darlings of Harry Hopkins or anybody else. Some were ebony Negroes from the South. Nearly all had an air of shabby insecurity. All showed fight...
...even in death could wily Founder Pittock wholly loose his loving hold on the Oregonian. His will left his 470 (out of 700) shares of Oregonian stock to two trustees, with "full and complete authority" to run the paper for 20 years. That trust ends next January 28. Last week the surviving trustee, Ore Lee Price, (age 61), Henry Pittock's longtime private secretary, made a long anticipated move. Pending expiration of the trust, when Mr. Price plans to retire for good, he will hold the title of president & publisher. Succeeding him last week in the key executive...
...Robert B. Lawson, physical director of the University of North Carolina, was asked to stir up a little golf interest among his pupils to stave off mortgage foreclosure on a local country club, he admitted frankly that he "didn't know which end of a stymie to take hold of." His 23-year-old daughter, Estelle (Phi Beta Kappa), knew less. Together they read a book on golf, bought four clubs apiece (brassie, No. 2 iron, mashie and putter) as recommended by the main street sporting-goods store. A few months later they not only had all the students...