Word: metcalfe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Breaking a six months' silence, Keye DeW. Metcalf, Director of the University Library, yesterday made his first statement of policy since taking up his duties last September. 'I shall make it my task to increase the efficiency of the library system as a whole," he said, "and to coordinate--not to centralize--the many, many libraries under my jurisdiction...
Instead it developed that Stephen O. Metcalf, president of the Providence Journal and Bulletin, anxious to keep outsiders out, had apparently been secretly preparing extra men on the Journal to take the place of the Star-Tribune staff overnight. Overnight, Mr. Metcalf stepped in last week to buy the Star-Tribune on the high bid of $181,000 cash, plus satisfaction of a $121,875 mortgage held by one-time owner U. S. Senator Peter G. Gerry. Completely out of the transaction was Walter Edmund O'Hara, who ran the Star-Tribune into bankruptcy after Governor Robert Quinn...
...boss of all three Providence dailies, Stephen Metcalf last week sent Journal-trained journalists to run the Star-Tribune until "adequately financed, independent operation of the Star-Tribune can be arranged, through reputable Rhode Island ownership of whatever political complexion. . . ." Then the Journal will sell...
Plans for the library in the Littauer School of Public Administration are going forward slowly, Keyes D. Metcalf, director of Widener Library, said yesterday...
...situation is complicated by the fact that the library in the new graduate school must also satisfy the requirements of the Social Sciences Departments, which will make their headquarters in the building scheduled to rise in the near future on the site of Hemenway Gymnasium, Metcalf said...