Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Funds for ABC will be solicited from business concerns which have foreign interests. The Rockefeller Foundation has already chipped in $2,500 for a starter. Kenneth Shaffer, librarian at the University of Indiana, has been appointed director of ABC at $5,000 a year...
Married. Catherine Vance Nimitz, 31, music-librarian, eldest of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' three daughters; and Commander James Thomas Lay, 36, of the Third Amphibious Force; in Washington, D.C. The wedding was put forward by the unexpected arrival from the Pacific of the bride's father. Result: the bride wore navy blue...
Except for other brief tenures as lecturer, Bancroft held only one other notable job, as librarian of the State Department from 1888 to 1892. A bachelor, he joined Washington's old, exclusive Metropolitan Club in 1891. A pleasant but solemn man, he was known to fellow members as a "very retiring and quiet sort." Historians respect his excellent studies of the South (Slave-Trading in the Old South, The Negro in Politics...
Saturday, March 3rd, 9 a.m.: Required meeting for new students in Emerson D. Speakers: Dr. A. V. Bock, Dean Leighton, and Keyes D. Metcalf, Librarian of Harvard College...
LeRoy J. Petrillo, son of the A.F. of L.'s contentious little Music Czar James C. Petrillo, sat in a 6th Armored Division tank in France, recalled his peacetime job as music librarian at Chicago's radio station WCFL, pondered the postwar world. Said G.I. Petrillo: ". . . I don't ever again want to fight anybody. I'll leave the fighting to poppa...