Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mystic Shrine. Sitting in a covered stand before the White House while the Shriners marched past him in a pouring rain, he was in high spirits, because by his telephoned request two of his best Roman Catholic advisers, Postmaster General Farley and SEChairman Kennedy, had hurried over to join him in honoring the Protestant "Nobles" plodding by with the red and blue dyes of their sateen regalia running into Pennsylvania Avenue. ¶ "If anybody asks you to discriminate because of politics you can tell them that the President of the United States gave direct orders that there...
After the Commencement exercises tomorrow morning, the 1910 spread will be held in a special tent in the Yard. The Class will then join the Alumni procession to the exercises in the Sever quadrangle at about 1.30 o'clock. The Reunion will be officially closed with a farewell tea in the Union...
These and some 70 other sticklers must be answered by the boy who would join the Royal Lions Auto Club of Stockbridge, Mich. It exists because a country school near Stockbridge offered no course in automobiles and 13-year-old Pupil Harold Mayer wanted to know all about them. He founded the club three years ago, took it along with him to Stockbridge High School, where it now has 150 members. Beaming on this venture in self-education, high-school officials furnished a schoolroom for weekly meetings, appointed a faculty adviser. Automotive manufacturers send lecturers, catalogs, publicity handouts, occasionally lend...
Harper Woodward '31, Secretary to President Conant, has resigned his position effective September 1, to practice law in New York City. Woodward, who succeeded Vernon Munroe, Jr., a year ago, will join the firm of Barry, Wainwright, Thacher, and Symmers. The appointment of his successor will be announced next week after the meeting of the Corporation...
...Wilson & Co. and United Dressed Beef Co. In The Bronx 2,000 women volunteering as pickets succeeded in closing down more than 1,000 meat shops. In Brooklyn a poultry dealer named William Sheeger carried a chicken home for supper. Pickets, mistaking him for a customer who would not join the boycott, hurled a rock through his window, pummeled him. Confined at first to kosher shops, the strike spread to some nonkosher operators. Strike leaders claimed that more than 4,000 shops had been closed. Meatmen put the figure at about 12% of that number...