Word: jeremiah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hungarian Government offered Jeremiah Smith, Jr., 54-year-old Boston lawyer, the post of Commissioner General under the League of Nations' scheme for reconstruction of Hungary. The post had previously been refused by W. P. G. Harding, Boston banker, onetime President of the U. S. Federal Reserve Board, and by Roland Boyden, former American observer on the Reparations Commission. Mr. Smith accompanied the American Peace Mission to Paris in 1918, as adviser on financial questions...
...Amherst. Dr. Fitch said that schoolboys and college boys were stupid. They swear, said he, and read immoral books and athleticize themselves and are remarkably bad. This speech received most of the press-comment. Said the press, in effect: "Once we listened to Dr. Fitch as the great Jeremiah of our age, but he begins to talk too loud. The louder he talks the less we listen...
...connection with the lecture of Mr. G. W. Wickersham on Thursday evening the Committee on the Choice of Vocations announced two conferences yesterday. Professor E. R. James '12, Professor of Law and Librarian of the Law School, between 11 and 1 o'clock, on Friday and Mr. Jeremiah Smith Jr. '92, between 2 and 4 o'clock, on the same day will meet all men interested in law as a vocation. Appointments for such conferences, which will be held in the Union, can be made with Assistant Dean Leighton at 3 University Hall...
...Jeremiah Jenks, political economy expert of New York University, recently returned to Germany, reported that Hugo Stinnes, Master of Coke, "is employing two secretaries with a staff of assistants solely to look after his widespread relief work. Stinnes provides the entire upkeep of the municipal kitchens, foundlings' home and a home for nursing mothers in Mühlheim, adjoining his own house, and contributes to a long list of hospitals, institutions, students' and middle-class canteens and scientific research institutions throughout Germany. Large numbers of shamefaced poor, including needy artists, writers and 'disabled officers, owe their existence...
March 12.--"Cervantes", Professor Jeremiah D. M. Ford '94, chairman of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures...