Word: junior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouper's generosity, Pat Harrison lent Bilbo money to live on, got him a $6,000 job clipping newspapers for AAA. In 1934 Bilbo saw a chance for a comeback, returned to Mississippi to try for the U. S. Senate seat held by Hubert Stephens. Loyal to his junior colleague, Senator Harrison backed Senator Stephens let him have most of the Mississippi patronage available that year. When Bilbo won, Harrison, though not fond of him, saw the wisdom of renewing his generosity. He introduced the gnarled little man to the Senate, showed him how to get New Deal money...
...only Republican firm to have made any political profit during the last three years of the New Deal Congress has been the North Dakota concern of Frazier & Lemke. Senior member is big, bald Lynn J. Frazier of Hoople, who sits in the Senate. Junior partner is freckle-faced William Lemke of Fargo, who does business for the firm in the House. Representative Lemke, despite his wrinkled clothes and his frequent need of a shave, has a good command of English, a well-schooled mind, an amiable disposition, a law degree from Yale, a conscientious ability far above the Congressional average...
...Godfrey, son of a jobber salesman, was too tall and thin to play football in Grand Rapids (Mich.) High School. He decided he wanted to be a painter. He studied drawing in Grand Rapids Junior College, went to Chicago in 1930 to take commercial art at the American Academy. Year later he was back in Grand Rapids living on his family. The Grand Rapids Art Gallery hung a couple of his paintings and he sold a few water colors from a concession booth at Chicago's Century of Progress. Finally he realized that the only place for an artist...
Winners of the other races were: Junior Singles, Samuel H. Rindge 1L; Novice Singles, Robert S. Chafee '36; 155-1b. Singles, Ivan M. Korbel '39; Narrow Compromise, Andrew Heiskell 1G.B.; Broad Compromise, Charles K.C. Lawrence '38; and Wherry, Robert H. Morse...
There was a time when Harvard College boasted an endowment of $5,190,000 and a telephone. That was on August 30, 1886 when John L. Taylor was given a position as junior clerk in the Wadsworth House Bursar's office. Today, 50 years afterward, as Auditor, he deals with an endowment of $128,800,000, transacts his business through one of the University's 6000 phone extensions...