Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short speeches over the public address system John M. Atherton '40, team manager, will introduce Bill Bingham, Director of the H.A.A.; Dick Harlow; Captain Torbie Macdonald; and Tack Hardwick; ardent alumnus and football enthusiast...
...Charles M. Bliss of Evanston, Illinois, and Evanston High School; Holworthy Hall and chairman of the Red Book...
...those who are worried lest a booming U.S. industry drag this country into war, two important executives have recently provided strong words of reassurance. Colby M. Chester, president of the General Foods Co., and Ernest T. Weir, head of the big Weirton Steel Co., have both issued statements within the past month to the effect that "American business does not like war because it knows that war is bad business." They went on to say that industrial leaders in this country realize that a war boom is disastrous in the long run, and that they would act accordingly...
Judge Thomas Richardson, chairman of Newcastle's Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal, rebuked "conchies" assembled before him by fuming: "I'm certain, as sure as I sit here, that if Christ appeared today he would approve of this war." Booed, hissed, Judge Richardson had to clear the court. Later he hemmed: "I was carried away. . . . Some of the statements as to what Christ would do irritated...
Another, bigger construction aristocrat is the engineering subsidiary of Stone & Webster, Inc., utility advisers, founded in two small rooms in Post Office Square, Boston 50 years ago by M. I. T. Men Charles A. Stone and Edwin S. Webster. In that half-century they have over $1,000,000,000 of construction, $11,000,000,000 of appraisal work to their credit. In the last fortnight, Stone & Webster's engineering offshoot took in more orders than in 1939's first eight months, ran its backlog up to $31,000,000 and was dickering for another...