Word: karle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honored. Mrs. Elias Compton, by an LL. D. from Western College for Women (Oxford, Ohio) for being mother of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's President Karl Taylor Compton, Nobel Prizeman Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago and Economist Wilson Martindale Compton; Dr. Roberts Andrews Millikan (cosmic ray opponent of Arthur Holly Compton), by the Outstanding Service medal of the Roosevelt Memorial Association; Journalist Walter Lippmann, by appointment as Chancellor of Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.); Author Stephen Vincent Benét, by $500 first prize in the O. Henry Memorial Prize for a story, "An End to Dreams...
...Student President Mills, who assembled for an early morning "pep meeting" his Vice President Henry Plude, Secretary-Treasurer William O'Neal, Controller Art Clark, Advertising Manager Fred Disterdick and student merchandising managers. The real Younkers' executives-Henry Frankels, Robert H. Duffy, Ross Dalbey, H. A. Metcalf, Karl Gerhardt et al- had fun too, taking a holiday and thinking up problems for the students to solve. Estimating that they had gained much goodwill to say nothing of increased sales, they planned another High School Day for next year...
...Colorado, Alva Blanchard Adams. Pueblo banker, onetime (1923-24) Senator, and nephew of the present Governor, nosed out John T. Barnett, wealthy Denver oilman, for the Democratic senatorial nomination, vice Senator Charles Winfield Waterman, deceased. Attorney Karl Cortlandt Schuyler of Denver easily won the Republican nomination. The Democratic primary vote rose from 47.000 in 1930 to 122,000 whereas the Republican primary vote declined from...
...Government's "military sport camps" will entice young voters away from the "private armies" already maintained by Germany's Fascists, Socialists and Steel Helmets. Perhaps Germans will obey for a while longer the absolute will of Paul von Hindenburg who celebrates his 85th birthday next fortnight. Commented Karl H. von Wiegand, No. 1 German Hearstman: "There is one man in Germany who, like Gandhi, wants nothing for himself but everything for his country: Hindenburg...
...Lawrenceville, where he went to school, Mercer Beasley used to play tennis with Karl Behr but it did not look as if the game would turn out to be his career. Even with Notlek Amusement Corp. in Manhattan which had vacant lots for skating in winter, tennis in the summer, Beasley's job as assistant manager had nothing to do with instruction. He took it upon himself to improve the calibre of Notlek tennis, was rewarded by an offer to become tennis coach at the Indian Hill Club in Winnetka, Ill. Said William Tatem Tilden II, when they...