Word: iii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small group of newshawks, most of them local and familiar but some of them from out-of-town, stood around the desk of the Governor of Pennsylvania one day last week eying a prosaic-looking man with drooping eyelids. Said Governor George Howard Earle III: "Gentlemen, I have something here that may or may not be important to you but I feel very strongly about it at this time...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (Brown '97) has distributed his offspring among U. S. colleges with the same conscientious impartiality that has characterized his largess. John Davison Rockefeller III was Princeton '29; Nelson Aldrich, Dartmouth '30; Laurance Spelman, Princeton '32; Winthrop Aldrich, Yale '35 (but no graduate); David, Harvard '36. Last week Princeton, which is currently seeking $6,500,000, elected serious young John D. Ill a life member of its Board of Trustees. Mr. Rockefeller; 31, is already a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, the General Education Board, the American Museum of Natural History...
Every British schoolboy learns that in 1348 the Countess of Salisbury embarrassingly shed a garter on a crowded, royal ballroom floor. Courtiers tittered but gallant Edward III saved the situation by putting the thing on his left leg, proclaiming, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Evil be to him who evil thinks). Thus was inaugurated the Most Noble Order of the Garter, most exalted in the British Knighthood. It is one of two Orders which admit women...
...Coryell Jr. has Checkbook No. 4, and Checkbook No. 5 is waiting for her four-year-old daughter, Leland Lorraine Coryell (L. L. Coryell III). The two families live in ten-room houses on opposite corners with direct telephone connection, facing each other across nearly identical yards. Lorraine has an identical set of toys in each house. For several years the Coryells dined in each house on alternate weeks, but this custom has been discontinued for reasons undivulged. Every morning, however, Junior calls for his father at precisely 7:30 a. m. and they march in step to the Coryell...
John P.Lee; George F. Lowman; Wiley E. Mayne; Donald McC. McKellar, Jr.; John S. Mechem; George von L. Meyer, III; Charles L. Moore; Arthur Oakes, III; George F. Roberts; John A. Roosevelt; Renouf Russell; David W. Shean, Jr.; Carl Shirley; Donald C. Sleeper; John B. Stevens; Hobert C. Stuart; Robert Sullivan; John N. Thorne, Jr.; George F. Tyler, Jr.; Caspar W. Weinberger; Adoniram J. Wells, Jr.; Robert T. Whitman; Edward F. Whitney; and Crocker Wight...