Word: kemper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador to Brazil, succeeding Herschel Johnson: James S. (for Scott) Kemper, 66, Chicago insurance executive and onetime (1944-46) treasurer of the Republican National Committee.* Kemper, who climbed from a clerkship to be head of seven companies which together form the Kemper group, one of the world's largest casualty and fire insurance groups, is a bluff, bustling, self-made businessman. He has long been interested in Pan American amity, helped found the Inter-American Council of Commerce and Production, has been decorated by Brazil and Ecuador. Kemper belongs to the conservative wing of the G.O.P., did yeoman work...
Chairman Alan Blackmer, English instructor at Andover, said the committee hopes to propose a means "to make a more coherent and effective whole of General Education before specialization begins." John M. Kemper, Headmaster at Andover, gave a brief description of the plan during a dinner at M.I.T. Thursday night. He described the program as designed to ease the transition from school to college...
...University will next year join Yale, Princeton, and three preparatory schools in establishing an experimental education program designed to ease the transition from school to college, it was announced last night. Headmaster John H. Kemper of Phillips Andover Academy disclosed the plan...
...problem," Dr. Kemper said, "is to integrate the work of schools and colleges in such a way as to make it into an effective coherent whole...
...between the ages of 15 and 24, burning up the roads in the family car or their own souped-up hot rods, kill themselves off at the rate of 7,100 a year, account for 27% of all traffic fatalities in the U.S. Last year traffic-minded James S. Kemper, board chairman of Chicago's Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co., whose policyholders (along with all the rest) pay $125 million a year in increased insurance rates because of teen-age drivers, decided to do something new about what he called "teenicide...