Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meredith, Harding's Wallace). "But," says John Cowles, "I don't want anyone to think my ambition is ever to be secretary of Agriculture." The Cowleses entertain often and well. Their bedded guests within a fortnight included such an assortment as Herbert Hoover. Thomas S. Lamont, Nicholas Roosevelt. Philip Ludwell Jackson, ebullient publisher of the (Portland) Oregon Journal who rarely gets to the office before noon and. having an elderly secretary who cannot take shorthand, never dictates a letter...
...picture hung on the walls of Adams House. Yesterday workmen placed a portrait of John Reed '10 on the wall of the stairway to the Upper Common Room. The portrait was painted by Robert Hallowell '10, a classmate of Reed, and was donated by a committee headed by Corliss Lamont '24. Reed, after leaving college in 1910 became a war correspondent and later went to Russia, where he took part in the revolution. He is the author of a book describing the revolution, entitled "Ten Days That Shook the World." He is buried near the Kremlin in Moscow...
...holds that one responsible, avoids interfering, keeps close tabs. Nominally Dr. Crocker himself is responsible to a board of ten trustees on which sit Col. Thompson's widow, his daughter, who is Mrs. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., Frederick Hudson Ecker (Metropolitan Life) and Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont. Actually Dr. Crocker and Trustee-Business Manager Fred Pope, onetime Thompson employe, submit an annual budget which the board passes without too hard study...
...Lamont, who is the National Chairman of the Friends of the Soviet Union, laid the cause of the nation's depressions to "the periods of underconsumption resulting from the capitalistic system. The consumptive capacity of the country is almost infinite, and all that would be necessary to remedy the situation would be to reduce the hours of labor...
Interpreting the results of the day's undergraduate effort to organize against war. Lamont said, "The student demonstrations today are indicative of the attitude against war and indirectly against Hearst...