Word: jr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they have three youngsters, all bird-lovers and naturalists like dad, all until two years ago fully convinced of dad's infallibility. But then, when redheaded, tubby, smart John Francis Jr., 15, was sports editor of Barnard School's paper, John Sr. called a big one wrong. If Schmeling beat Joe Louis he promised to eat his hat. John ate a hat all right-a candy and cake creation. John Jr. lost no such wager, but dad's wrong guess was a blow. He said, "Did I lose prestige...
...Samuel Insull Jr., who lost most of his utility officerships in his father's colossal crash, resigned the last one-a $51,000-a-year job as assistant to Chairman James Simpson of Commonwealth Edison Co.- in order to make more money at insurance brokerage and settle his remaining $300,000 in debts...
...York Stock Exchange to a halt and President Richard Whitney mounted the rostrum to announce the suspension of J. A. Sisto & Co. for inability to meet its obligations. One morning last week a peal of the gong brought trading to a halt and Exchange Chairman Edward E. Bartlett Jr. mounted the rostrum to announce the first suspension since Richard Whitney & Co. was expelled last March. It was J. A. Sisto...
Under the present plan two men, Langdon P. Marvin Jr. '41 and Allan B. Ecker '41; were in charge of the entire inter-House debating system, arranging schedules, picking, subjects, and supervising the debates...
...recipients of the Wendell scholarship are Samuel H. Cross '12, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard; Robert M. Green '02, Associate Professor of Applied Anatomy at Harvard; Seth T. Gane '07, Boston, secretary of the class of 1907 and former treasurer of Phi Beta Kappa; Jeffries Wyman Jr. '23 Associate Professor of zoology at Harvard; Mason Hammond '25, Assistant Professor of History and of Greek and Latin at Harvard; and George Is, Haskins '35, Junior Member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard...