Word: howland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fraternity men proceeded to pass resolutions: condemning Hell Week (initiation week) shenanigans, deploring "recent lapses from good taste on the part of certain fraternity chapters that have lent themselves to pictorial exploitation." Elected president of the National Undergraduate Interfraternity Council was a model boy, Michigan State's Arthur Howland, a student who is working his way through college by leading a dance band...
...past five years, Father Divine, always well-heeled with the contributions he receives from the earnings of his followers, has bought $212,000 worth of property on the west bank of the Hudson, north of New York. The dusky messiah became a human spite fence last summer when Howland Spencer, socialite anti-New Dealer, sold Father Divine his-estate at Krum Elbow, across the river from the Roosevelts' Hyde Park. Last week, in a pet, an embattled woman of Newport, R. I. threatened a similar sale...
...York, Florida, Massachusetts and Texas each wanted a taxable slice of the $36,000.000 kitty left when, nearly three years ago, Death came to peg-legged, pleasure-loving Colonel Edward Howland Robinson ("Ned") Green, son of that fabulous old miser, Hetty Green. Colonel Green, who liked to fly his own blimp, collect jigsaw puzzles, jiggle pocketfuls of diamonds, buy "anything that snapped," maintained residences at one time or another in all four States. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court settled the matter by deciding that $5,000,000 should go to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, because Colonel Green "spent...
Heading the dance committee is Douglas MacLeod '39. Others are Philip L. Lowe '39, John H. Howland '39, G. Scott Olive, Jr., '40, Philip deN. Ruprecht '40, and Robert M. Peebles...
...Cambridge, Mass.; Edgar L. Haff, Jr, '39, of Fort Edward, N.Y.; Leonard E. Leboeuf '39, of Webster, Mass.; Joseph S. Wyzan, of Milford, Mass.; Arthur R. Borden, Jr. '39, of Roslindale, Mass.; William E. Braden '41, of Toledo, O.; Harry R. Harwood, Jr. '39, of Springfield, Mass.; John H. Howland '39, of Windsor, Vt., Bernard Kalman '39, of Roxbury, Mass.; William H. Magruder '40, of Bethesda, Md.; Walter D. Riddle, Jr. '40, of Edgeworth, Pa.; and Holland L. Willard '40, of Brookline, Mass...