Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yonkers, N. Y., on the banks of the broad Hudson, is the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Since last autumn the Institute's scientists and technicians have been at work on a greenhouse heated & lighted by electric lamps. Last week Director William Crocker announced that the electric greenhouse was no longer a hopeful experiment but a successful fact...
...good friend of Roosevelt I. A Red Cross mission to Russia which he headed and helped pay for had taught him the importance of food crops. His interest in ornamental plants was aroused when he came to select trees, shrubs and flowers for his 30-acre estate on the Hudson. Meditating the Rockefeller millions assigned to ameliorate and prolong human life, he decided to set up a station for studying the fundamental hows & whys of plant behavior. When Colonel Thompson died in 1930, he had given the Institute some $10,000,000, more than a third of his fortune...
...some one absolute charge of every enterprise, however, and holds that one responsible, avoids interfering, keeps close tabs. Nominally Dr. Crocker himself is responsible to a board of ten trustees on which sit Col. Thompson's widow, his daughter, who is Mrs. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., Frederick Hudson Ecker (Metropolitan Life) and Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont. Actually Dr. Crocker and Trustee-Business Manager Fred Pope, onetime Thompson employe, submit an annual budget which the board passes without too hard study...
Three leaves of absence granted to faculty members were announced yesterday as approved by the Corporation. Manley O. Hudson, Bemis Professor of International Law, and Edward S. Thurston '98, professor of Law, are taking sabbatical leaves for the second half of next year. Kenneth G. T. Webters '93, assistant professor of English, is taking the first half of next year...
...Roosevelt: almost all of Ontario's power business is already in the hands of Hydro and Hydro is an official appendage of the Provincial Government. Furthermore, no less a private U. S. powerman than . Chairman Floyd Leslie Carlisle of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York and of Niagara Hudson Power Corp. once described Hydro as "the best managed and operated government enterprise in the world...