Word: irvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold star for the Methodists, it may well put a black mark by the names of two others. Last week, in the closing session of the Presbyterian assembly in Denver (see below), it was decided that the next meeting should take place in Fort Worth, Tex. Arose Negro Missionary Irvin W. Underbill Jr. to object against "any place where a Negro cannot be treated as a man and as a brother." He urged the other Negro delegates thus to go on record. Moderator Charles W. Kerr expostulated. The motion to meet in Fort Worth was put and carried with...
Married. Gladys Swarthout, lissom Metropolitan Opera contralto specializing in boys' roles; and Frank Michler Chapman Jr., concert baritone, son of the famed ornithologist, first husband of Funnyman Irvin S. Cobb's literary daughter Elisabeth ("Buffy") Cobb Brody...
Results of the elections of officers of the Phillips Brooks House Association announced yesterday by E. S. Amazeen '31, graduate secretary, revealed that Peregrine White '33, of Beverly, had received the greatest number of votes necessary for the presidency. Walter Irvin Tucker '33, of Baltimore, Maryland, received the second highest number of votes, thereby becoming vice president for the year 1932-33. Richard Scudder Neff '33, of Chicago, Illinois, was elected to serve as secretary-treasurer. The balloting was conducted by mail between March 21 and April...
News-tickers rushed the word to Pittsburgh, capital of Steel. Here too it was a surprise. Steelmen knew Mr. Irvin. They had met him at the Duquesne Club, at association meetings and dinners. They all knew him to be a good operating man, one of the kind popularly supposed to be able to tell the rate of production by sniffing Pittsburgh's cinder-laden air. But none had ever dreamed he would rise to the greatest height in their world. If he had ever had that dream himself, he never revealed...
...Irvin is 58 and most of his years have been spent in the steel business. After working as a telegraph messenger for the Western Union, he became a telegraph operator for Pennsylvania Railroad and later a shipping clerk for P. H. Laufmann Co., sheet and tinplate makers, in 1895. He literally went through the mill, coming out superintendent. Two mergers brought P. H. Laufmann into the U. S. Steel family in 1904, as part of American Sheet & Tin Plate. For 20 years Mr. Irvin was assistant to the operating vice president. Then he was rewarded with promotion to vice president...