Word: homed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selection of applicants consideration will be given to geographical distribution. Dean Donham stated that applicants would preferably be chosen from areas where it was impossible for a man to live at home and study at a nearby university. The scholarships would thereby provide funds to assist those men who otherwise would be denied the opportunity of preparing themselves for a career by taking graduate work in business administration...
...simply "yapping minorities," as the editorial maintains, who are attacking the rights of students and teachers and labor organizations to speak out boldly on current issues. The Crimson insists on viewing the curtailment of academic freedom at Chicago, Ohie, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Cornell, not to hit nearer home, as isolated instances, but one does not have to be gifted with second sight to see these isolated cases of the curtailment of academic freedom as part of a movement which did not begin and will not end at our colleges and universities...
Other lettermen returning from the squad which finished fourth in the Eastern Intercollegiate League standings include Maurice Poitras, Kent and Steve Stavers, all distance men, and Berndt Lindgren, a sprinter. Outstanding Sophomore is Jack Brown, equally well at home in any free-style event, at the back, and the breast stroke. Other promising second-year men are Gunner Ohberg and Aiden Wood, sprinters, and Joe McKinley, a diver...
Cyrus Stephen Eaton is a well-dressed, frosty-eyed financier of 56. He left his native home in bleak Pugwash, Nova Scotia, to study for the Baptist ministry. In Cleveland in 1925 he dramatized his power to refinance Trumbull Steel Co. by proving to its officers that Cleveland Trust Co. would honor his check for $20,000,000. By 1930 he was instrumental in forming the No. 3 steel Company (by mergers built on Republic), was sitting on the boards of 20 great corporations (utilities, steel, paints, hotels). That year he helped undermine the foundation of the tottering Insull empire...
...press at night, forced newsmen to call Willkie by phone for his replies, which ran at the tail end of stories in morning papers. Said he: "Apparently, the foes of the utilities prefer to work under cover of darkness. At least their strategy requires me to stay at home at night, to be on hand for inquiries from the press, and that is probably salutary...