Word: iii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Privately Catholics discussed with their priests the latest move of wavy-haired young King Leopold III in calling to the Premiership an economist untried in statecraft, Professor Paul van Zeeland, Vice Governor of the National Bank of Belgium. In her wisdom Mother Church could offer no fiscal consolation. Her attitude, cautiously reflected by the Catholic Press of Belgium, was that no good could be expected of van Zeeland, "an admirer of Roosevelt...
Kirkland started off badly as Harvard's "social desert." First thing the Dean's Office did when it began Housing freshmen was to induce a big group of young socialites (including Theodore Roosevelt III) to pioneer in Kirkland. After one year most of them (including Theodore Roosevelt III) moved out. Today most of Kirkland's residents come out of public schools...
Engaged. James Paul Warburg, Manhattan banker, writer on economics, monetary adviser to the U. S. delegation at the 1933 London Economic Conference, divorced husband of Composer Katharine Faulkner ("Kay") Swift; and Mrs. Phyllis Baldwin Browne, sister of socialite New York State Senator Joseph Clark Baldwin III. divorced wife of Gilbert G. Browne of Manhattan...
...clock one morning John Jacob Astor III went furtively to work as assistant to the assistant marine superintendent of the International Mercantile Marine Co. in Manhattan. For three days he clerked quietly. Then newshawks discovered him, pestered until he glumly gave an interview. "I was," said he, "very glad to get this job." Whether his half-brother Vincent Astor, vice president and part owner of the company, was also glad, he did not know. He was working eight hours a day, six days a week, getting $25. He found that the job had to do with hiring and firing crews...
...received prizes were as follows: Basketball: Brent M. Abel '37, Henry M. Adlis '37, Donald B. Bates '35, Perry J. Culver '37, Harold L. Drimmer '35, Richard A. Illoway '36, George E. Moredock, Jr. 1L, coach, Maurice M. Stern '36. Soloman W. Stern, Jr. '35, and Edmund C. Walsh, III...