Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter E. Clark, Wales of Professor of Sanskrit, and Master of the House was elected honorary president. The annual Boat Club dinner, attended by past and present members, will take place in Boston on Saturday...
Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master, made the featured address of the evening. He spoke of the traditions Lowell has which may be traced back of its eight years of existence. Richards M. Glimmer, Director of Admissions, spoke at length about the workings and aims of the Board of Admissions. Elliot H. Knowlton '38, now Chairman of the House Committee, read from the diary of a member of Lowell House...
Through the bare corridors of the House Office Building one day last week padded an alert young German shepherd dog named Rex, a harness with a thick handgrip buckled around his shoulders. To the grip clung Rex's master, Dr. Harry P. Claus of Arlington, Va., a consulting engineer blinded in an airplane crash three years ago. Man and guide turned into a room where a sub-committee of the Interstate Commerce Committee was considering unfavorably a bill to require railroads to permit blind men's dogs to travel with them on trains...
...conceded, had indeed been willing to let him and Rex travel together, but one had forced them both to ride in a baggage car. As he talked, Rex, with even more eloquence, was thumping his bushy tail on the green committeeroom carpet. Seeing Eye dogs, declared Rex's master, were taught always to be friendly with everyone, unless commanded otherwise. Amiably Rex rose, stalked up to R. V. Fletcher, stuck out his paw. Grinning, the railway counsel unbent and shook the paw. Unseeing Dr. Claus continued his plea. The 13-month-old dog rolled over on his back, waved...
...Chicago. Mrs. Marion Felix Jones brought a rare equity action known as quia timet (because he fears) against her wealthy rubber-making father, Benjamin Bates Felix. At the start of hearings before a Master in Chancery which may drag on two years, Mrs. Jones testified that she is afraid she will not receive property valued at $500,000 orally promised by her grandfather because her father is under the domination of his second wife. Mrs. Jones is suing now to establish the oral promise as a constructive trust, before her father's death...