Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Science will be strongly represented as Waldemar Lindgren, William Barton Rogers Professor of Economic Geology at M.I.T., and Charles Schuchert, Yale paleontologist, will also be awarded degrees by President Conant. Walter Prentice Bowers, a practising home physician of Clinton, will be awarded a Master of Arts degree in recognition of his service to the inhabitants of Worcester County...
George Peabody Gardner, Jr. '10, Chief Marshall and chairman of the executive committee for the Reunion, acted as show-master introducing an hilariously received cast of class members and their families. The entire group then adjourned to the Union for dancing with Jack Marchard's orchestra...
...down from the royal country seat in Scotland, and it was His Majesty's pleasure that Laborite MacDonald should break with his Labor friends-the men who had raised him from a $3.25 per week clerk to be Prime Minister-and form a so-called "National Government." That master stroke has given Britain a Cabinet Conservative in fact which has carried on for nearly four years under the pretense that Mr. MacDonald, having ditched his Labor friends, yet remained a "National Laborite," and somehow represented Britain's proletariat. Because this political façade must soon crumble before...
...Shanghai that sturdy pillar of the U. S. business colony, Frank Jay Raven, master of the "Raven Interests" (banking, real estate, insurance) which had assets of $70,000,000 as recently as last December, had just been shaken down. He blamed the collapse of his American-Oriental Banking Corp., much patronized by missionaries, the U. S. Marines and Shanghai prostitutes, on President Roosevelt's artificial jacking up of the price of silver, on which everything turns in China. "I am financially broke, but we are protecting our creditors," said Mr. Raven. "All my resources are going into liquidation...
...Martha, whom he keeps calling Eleanor. The opening of Annapolis serves as a background for a performing chow dog named Red Dust which comes in draped around a lady's neck like a fur piece and is, thereafter, in a state of almost continual collapse. Abraham Lincoln is master of ceremonies in a scene on the banks of the Potomac in 1865 which features a uniformed tenor singing "There's Moonlight in a Kiss" to a girl in crinoline. When President McKinley manifests an interest in Hawaiian music, one Bert Lynn favors with some plaintive strumming...