Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Dr. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose of Philadelphia, geologist and mining engineer, left it nearly $5,000,000. It distributes income from this hoard as grants in aid of U. S. research. President of A. P. S. is Roland Sletor Morris, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Japan. Mr. Morris is a busy man. He has a law practice, teaches international law at University of Pennsylvania, is interested in sociology, Pennsylvania politics, collecting U. S. debts from Russia. Three years ago he asked Conklin to take over supervision of A. P. S.'s multitudinous affairs. Result: Edward Grant Conklin...
...theatre group called the Wiener kleinkunstbühne found their way to the U. S. as refugees. By last winter they were a unit again, eager to act. Few knew any English, but they plugged away at the language. They had no resources, but they found such sponsors as Mr. and Mrs. George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin, Edna Ferber, Max Gordon, Sam H. Harris. Last week they presented their first U. S. revue...
Soberly and at length, Mr. Rockefeller pondered Dr. Fosdick's words. Last week he had 50,000 copies of them distributed among U. S. businessmen, labor leaders, Congressmen. In a covering note he wrote: "This sermon ... is one of the most arresting utterances in connection with the gradual drift of the world toward a great conflagration that has come to my attention...
...last week's excursion, the corporation chartered two Pullmans, took along Mr. & Mrs. George Smith of WWVA, as chaperons. In Manhattan all paid a preliminary visit to the Fair, that night rehearsed from five till nine. They rehearsed again next morning, attended West Vir ginia Day at the Fair, that night attended Hellzapoppin, where the Steele Sisters joined the fun, sang from the stage. After Sunday's broadcast the party pulled out at 9:35 p. m., got home in time for work Monday...
...Alcoa suit's long-distance mark for consecutive testimony was set last spring by Edward K. Davis, publicity-shy president of Aluminium Limited of Canada. Younger brother (59) of Alcoa's Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis, Mr. Davis held the stand for six and a half weeks while the Government went after him hammer & tongs trying to show that Aluminium Ltd. is not a separate, independent corporation, but an international stooge set up by Alcoa. When he was finally excused, Harvardman Davis was glad to get back to his 400-acre estate on Cape Cod, where he raises...