Word: martin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Records fall rapidly. Two weeks ago, a record high price, $116,000, was paid for a seat on the New York Stock Exchange (TIME, July 6). Last week, that record came down and a new one was rung up: $122,000 for a seat sold by James M. Martin to Kenneth R. White. Earlier in the year, seats sold...
...Ernest Martin Hopkins, President Dartmouth College LL.D...
...Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N. J.) the alumni paraded behind George S. Silzer, LL.D., '23, Governor of New Jersey. The trustees announced the election of Dr. John Martin Thomas, President of Pennsylvania State College, to succeed Dr. William H. S. Demarest (resigned 1924) as President of Rutgers. The University exchanged distinctions with Tsuneo Matsudaira, Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., by making that gentleman an honorary Doctor of Laws...
Yale University (New Haven), Conn.) distributed honorary degrees to Edward S. Harkness, '97, a wealthy benefactor; the Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, "one of the foremost pulpit orators of the world"; Robert Andrews Milliken, President of the California-Institute of Technology; Ernest Martin Hopkins, President of Dartmouth College; Alumnus John Hays Hammond, mining engineer; Alumnus Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania; Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Board of the Radio Corporation of America; Alumnus James Rockwell Sheffield, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico...
...Alumnus Martin acknowledged his error? Had he come to New Haven with his classmates? The discussions dwelt upon the trying position a college president occupies. Because he had told Alumnus Martin that he held no narrow views on the use of alcoholics and that the conduct of alumni was no affair of the President of Yale, Dr. Angell had been charged by a fanatical Pennsylvania alumnus with conniving at a "conspiracy in the class of '95 to violate the Eighteenth Amendment and flout the Constitution." "O! tempora," commented a Yale alumnus who had studied Latin, "Oh ! Mory...