Word: jr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge Manton appointed Thomas E. Murray Jr. receiver for New York City's biggest subway, Interborough Rapid Transit-a procedure normally performed by inferior District Court judges. For this the U. S. Supreme Court criticized Circuit Court Judge Martin Manton and he withdrew from the I. R. T. case though Receiver Murray remained. Last week a U. S. Attorney revealed that Thomas E. Murray Jr. owned about 16% of the stock of Forest Hills Terrace Corp., another Manton enterprise...
...great Charles W. Eliot got G. E. B. to put up the money. Later G. E. B. gave Teachers College a $3,000,000 endowment to run Lincoln and a building to house it. Lincoln School became so exemplary an institution that many a bigwig, including John D. Rockefeller Jr., sent his children there. The thousands of teachers who came to Teachers College to study each year went back to introduce in their own schools Lincoln's activity program and other progressive methods...
Among scores of other college baseballers singled out this year as big-league timber, there are a half-dozen far more famed (though less skilful) than either Borowy or Tipton. In the Yale line-up two of the most noteworthy players are Outfielder Eddie Collins Jr., son of the Baseball Immortal who helped bring fame to Connie Mack's pre-War Athletics, and Pitcher Joe Wood Jr., son of famed "Smoky Joe"* who won 34 games for the Red Sox in 1912. At Colgate another Immortal's son, Pitcher George Sisler Jr., has proved he is a chip...
...flashy mounting by Robert Edmond Jones, had a plot which died of Southern molassitude. The Lyric Theatre next put on an evening of dancing by Lincoln Kirstein's Ballet Caravan-an uninspired Air and Variations to music by Bach; an arty cigar-store Indian Pocahontas (Elliott Carter Jr.); a rich, loamy piece of Americana, Billy the Kid (Aaron Copland...
...partners in the firm issuing the securities, all the experts who attest to its accuracy, all the underwriters who float the issue. Last week a batch of these gentlemen was ordered in New York supreme court to stand and deliver. Among five so ordered was Charles H. Sabin Jr., eminently respectable son of the late president of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust...