Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand again this year to referee the struggle with the contents of the manila envelope is Stanley K. Leonard, graduate student who was in charge of last fall's registration. The only change in the rigamarole already familiar to upper classmen, according to Leonard, is that the envelopes contain one more card than they did last year. The new addition requests information regarding the status of students with respect to the Selective Service Act and is designed to give the University some idea of what is to become of the student body. Special regulations covering students who leave for military...
...conscientious lad, Mr. Leonard says, will go through Mem Hall in 20 or 30 minutes, and by conscientious lads Mr. Leonard means Freshmen. Upperclassmen, he says, suffer from over-confidence and are always the underdogs of registration. He expects his peak load between 11 and 12 today...
...approved a new bylaw adopted by her International Church of the Four Square Gospel. It prohibits a divorced minister from remarrying. ∙ ∙ Oldtime Cinemactress Constance Binney, 40, revealed she had been secretly married for nearly a month to a 22-year-old flight lieutenant in the R.A.F., Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire. ∙ ∙ Philadelphia society's former Princess Ruth Pignatelli, fighting for a divorce from her second husband, Broker James C. Brazelle, denied she bought a gentleman jockey friend a $250 set of store teeth. Husband Brazelle asked "reasonable support and maintenance." ∙ ∙ Princess Olga Troubetzskoi...
Later that year Coolidge sent him to the Philippines as Governor General to succeed his old friend General Leonard Wood, who had been his Chief of Staff. In Manila he studied the islands (was frank in saying that the Philippines should never be independent, equally frank in saying that exploitation of the islands by commercial and banking interests must cease...
...mental health of recruits. A large amount of mental disease cropped up in the A.E.F., prompted General Pershing to wire home: Stop sending over the mentally unfit. Even with thoroughgoing psychiatric examinations, 10% of the volunteers inducted in 1940, according to the Army's chief psychiatric adviser, Dr. Leonard Rowntree, showed signs of insanity after reaching camp...