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Professor Kennedy was well known for his activity in civic organizations and for his membership in engineering and other societies. An overseer of the Browne and Nichols School, a corporation member of the Cambridge Hospital, at one time he served as a director of the Harvard Co-operative Society. In 1933 he was an executive chairman of the Cambridge Hospital, at one time he served as a director of the Harvard Co-operative Society. In 1933 he was an executive chairman of the Cambridge relief committee...
...White House. A few hours later his Committee astounded Washington by reporting out the Dies resolution for prompt House action. "I don't predict what action the House may take," said Speaker Bankhead, "but admittedly there is strong opposition to Sit-Down strikes on the part of the membership." That sentiment, if unchecked, promised the incredible spectacle of John L. Lewis following the path of bankers, stockbrokers and utilities magnates to a Congressional witness chair, there to have his inmost secrets exposed to public view...
With the holding of the First International Conference on Fever Therapy in Manhattan last week, a new medical art became of age. The French Government saluted the event by having its Consul General of New York, Count Charles de Ferry de Fontnouvelle confer membership in the Legion of Honor upon, four U. S. pioneers in the field-Willis Rodney Whitney, General Electric's vice president who invented the radiotherm (high frequency electric device for creating artificial fevers in sick people); Charles Franklin Kettering, General Motors vice president, who designed the hypertherm (air-conditioned hot box in which sick people...
Only actions that the President took were to telephone Governor Murphy congratulations when he got an agreement to evacuate the Chrysler plants, to accept an honorary membership in the Phi Kappa literary & debating society at University of Georgia, to sign bills accepting gifts from Old Dealer Andrew Mellon of $19,000,000 worth of old masters (TIME, Jan. 11), from Old Dealer Henry Ford the site for a veterans' hospital in Michigan...
President Kent, who went to Louisville from Chicago's Northwestern University in 1929, had a more personal reason to celebrate. This January he succeeded after long effort in getting the University of Louisville admitted to 'membership in the potent Association of American Universities. Louisville has a Class A dental school besides its schools of law and medicine, a liberal arts college with some 2,000 undergraduates. Residents of Louisville have attended the college tuition-free since the city replaced its annual grants to the University with a 5? levy on each $100 worth of taxable property...