Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides being a famed statistician, Roger Ward Babson is a pious Congregationalist who presents a Bible to every new employe in his organization at Wellesley Hills, Mass. He wrote Religion and Business and numerous other books on similar subjects. Last week in South Hadley, Mass. 1,500 Congregationalists and Christians at the biennial meeting of the General Council of their now united Church unanimously elected Statistician Babson their moderator for the next two years. In so doing they not only approved a growing Congregational-Christian feeling toward more lay control of the Church, but drafted for full service a wiry...
Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.) Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Gallaudet Draper .......... M.A. President-elect Roswell Gray Ham of Mount Holyoke College ........... LL.D...
Boston University (Boston, Mass.) Bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman. . Mus.D...
Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) President Isaiah Bowman of Johns Hopkins University LL.D. President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania. .. .LL.D. President William Edwin Hall of the Boys' Club Federation of America. . .M.A. President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago LL.D. President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories D.Sc. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison. .. .Litt.D. Historian George Macauley Trevelyan.Litt...
...when a young Yankee gathered tools and helpers to make grandfather clocks in Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley. At first the parts were wooden and fitted only one clock. Later clockmakers shifted to brass and eventually evolved precision methods, interchangeable parts. Clock-making was the first real mass production in the U. S. No Connecticut craftsman built better than Seth Thomas I, few as well, and by 1853 he had sold enough clocks to organize a formal company with $75,000 capital, sizable money in those days...