Word: lumberman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...champion of progressive education, or even of that handy motto "education-for-all." Rugged Governor Hartley has, however, run things to his taste, notably six years ago when his Board of Regents ousted President Henry Suzzallo of the University of Washington (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Last week, like a lumberman smashing a log jam, he shook up the university once more. President Suzzallo, now head of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, must have watched with interest, for many of the logs that went bobbing away were educational machinery that he had built...
Died. Mrs. Kate Stanwood Cutter Pillsbury Curtis, second wife and second cousin of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis; of heart disease; in Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, where her husband, 81, lay seriously ill. Born in Bangor, Me. she married first Lumberman Harrison M. Pillsbury, resided in Milwaukee until after his death in 1903. In 1910 she married Publisher Curtis whose first wife (the former Louise Knapp, the first editor of Publisher Curtis' Ladies' Home Journal) had died that year...
Joan Bennett, who is 21, blonde, green-eyed, 110 lb., 5 ft. 3 in., divorced (from John Martin Fox, son of a Seattle lumberman), has a three-year-old daughter named Adrienne...
Died. Alfred S. Austrian, 61, Chicago lawyer; of a gastric ailment; in Chicago. Learned, eloquent, he had successfully represented Armour & Co. in defense of its acquisition of Morris & Co. which the U. S. Government contended was a violation of the Clayton Anti-trust Act. Among his other clients were Lumberman James Stanley Joyce (divorced by Peggy); the late William Wrigley Jr.'; Erlanger theatre interests; White Sox baseball club; the Chicago Tribune...
...bids were received: one from rich Lumberman James M. West, who held a claim on some of the newspaper's stock as security for a $250,000 note to Publisher Sterling, and who had quietly bought up enough more stock to give him control. The other bid came from Mr. Josey, another good friend of Trustee Jones. After some court wrangling, Lumberman West sold his interest to Mr. Josey for $485,000, after which he went off with Governor Sterling to the latter's ranch to hunt deer...