Word: jr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Harry Selfridge's son, handsome, fun-loving H. Gordon Jr., resigned his directorships in Selfridge's and its West London white elephant, William Whiteley, Ltd. (bought in Britain's 1927 boom), but kept his managerial job in the 19 Selfridge Provincial Stores throughout England and the London suburbs. A U. S. citizen, Gordon Jr. now has an unpaid job in the Ministry of Information's Home Publicity Department. Father Selfridge, now definitely in retirement, plans after visiting Chicago to return to his London office (whose windows are covered with autographs etched in with...
...more difficulty arose when Nancy wrote Detroit's Council for permission to build the tower. Belle Isle is a city park and playground, site of Detroit's Conservatory, scene of its summer Symphony concerts. Council President Edward J. Jefferies Jr. wanted to know who was going to pay a carillonneur's salary in years to come. Nancy explained: her chimes would need no expert, salaried carillonneur. She got her permit...
...Citadels of Snobbery" Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr. '41, attacks the club system as a Harvard evil which appears to be on the wane but which still plays a large role in certain limited sectors of Harvard undergraduate life...
...Placing American ships under the flag of Panama is perfectly legal, but immoral, unethical, and unfair. It renders laughable our efforts at neutrality," Payson S. Wild, Jr., associate professor of Government, said yesterday...
Speaking over station WEEI Saturday in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court, Assistant Professor Benjamin F. Wright, Jr. of the Government Department opened the Guardian's fall series of broadcasts...