Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reserved, ironhanded Charles Eugene Denney (59), taken from the presidency of the bankrupt Erie. It was the late, smart Railroader John J. Bernet (chief operating officer for the Van Sweringen railroad empire) who first saw that Charlie Denney had something. Son of a master watchmaker, Charlie Denney moved from newsboy to Penn State to Union Switch & Signal Co., through a multitude of railroad jobs to general manager of the Nickel Plate. Then Bernet took him to Erie, left him there as president when he went to head Chesapeake & Ohio. A family man, he used to play avidly with electric trains...
France has a technique logical, whimsical, Gallic. When the Germans called France Britain's Rin-Tin-Tin, the French lost little time getting out a story that France's real Rin-Tin-Tin, a trained police dog, had indeed enlisted with his master in the French Army. Paris-Mondial spent much air time twitting Germany on the Moscow deal, hinting at a sort of diplomatic cuckoldry with the Soviets reaping the joys of Germany's conquest...
...Wyant, Winthrop, president; William F. Pennebaker, Leverett, vice-president; Dean R. Noyes, Dunster; Harold Glickman, Dudley; George Dana, Eliot, George B. Lyons, Kirkland; Edmund J. Docring, Lowell; William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics; Clarence H. Haring, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics and Master of Dunster House, and Samborski...
...meeting directors were chosen for the current year. Dean Leighton and Alfred C. Redfield, professor of Physiology, were named directors for Harvard at Large. Stanley F. Teele, associate professor of Marketing was chosen for the Officers of Harvard and Kenneth B. Murdock, professor of English and Master of Leverett House, for the Alumni. To represent the undergraduates, the following were selected; Thomas B. Healey '40 for the Senior Class, David D. Henry '41 for the Junior Class, and John W. Hallantine for the Sophomore Class...
Fiene embodies some of the controlled but outspoken realism of the elder Breughel, sixteenth century Flemish master. In Breughel's work, we see the underlying and basic connection of man with nature. His men and women are integral parts of the landscape; humanity is just as deeply rooted in the earth as a massive rock or a tree. Fiene speaks much in the same manner. His men are on a par with the countryside which they inhabit. But his is a new kind of landscape, one bristling with cranes and pulleys, a valley of machines whose wheels seem...