Word: mott
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...blue eyes are a bit misty, but when the school board of Flint, Mich., considers its annual budget, Philanthropist Charles Stewart Mott focuses on the figures as critically as an IRS agent checking a casino tax return. "I'm a nut on this sort of thing," says Mott by way of explanation...
...nuttiness would be welcomed by any school board in the country. In the past 33 years, Mott has pumped $42 million into the public schools of Flint to keep them open evenings, weekends and summers for an improbable array of community activities. This year 92,000 residents of Flint (pop. 200,000), more than half of them adults, have signed up for extra curricular educational, recreational and civic programs in the city's schools. Including 47,000 school-age children, well over half of Flint's residents are involved in some form of school activity...
Four years later the Golden Age began--and contiued for more than a decade. In the 1880 Intercollegiates were moved to Mott Haven, New York. Harvard--still a team without a decade. In the 1880's Intercollegiates were moved to Mott Haven, New seconds, and three thirds...
...deathbed in 1938 and offered to make him the next President of Turkey. The incredible story appeared last week as part of an otherwise sobersided biography of the late British diplomat, Sir Pierson Dixon, written by his son. Before the Turks could protest, Tory M.P. Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe, a former diplomat, explained that it was all a 30-year-old joke perpetrated by himself. He had written a phony cable about Atatürk's dying offer as a satire on diplomatese and shown it to Sir Pierson, his colleague. Dixon thought it so funny he took...
Died. Newcomb Mott, 27, Massachusetts book salesman who last November was sentenced to 18 months in a Soviet labor camp for wandering across the Soviet frontier near Murmansk while on a vacation in Norway; reportedly by his own hand (the Russians claim that he slashed his throat in a lavatory of the train that was taking him to a camp in central Russia); near Kirov. Washington immediately denounced Russian handling of the case and demanded a "full investigation...