Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plans for next year will be featured at the first Annual Dinner of the Harvard Undergraduate Faculty at Phillips Brooks House tonight at 6:30 o'clock, which will be attended by the fifty undergraduate tutors and their tutees, members of the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet, and Dean Leighton. Mr. Mather's subject will be "The place of the Undergraduate Faculty in Democratic Education...
When spectacled, studious John M. Cassells (a onetime Rhodes Scholar, later a Harvard instructor) was a youth, he worked in a wholesale fruit house. One of his functions was to mix bad peanuts with sound ones. He found the job particularly disagreeable because he was a Sunday School teacher. Mr. Cassells became interested in consumers' problems. Year and a half ago, when the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gave Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. about $40,000 a year to found an Institute for Consumer Education, Stephens took John Cassells, then 37, from Harvard, made him director of its Institute...
...that time Mr. Cassells had decided that consumers needed to know more than how to tell good peanuts from bad. Soon he had his students not only sallying forth on practice shopping expeditions and investigating advertising, but also studying economics, banking and even Plato's Republic...
...days later, Bird pleaded guilty to hocking $160,000 worth of the railroad's bonds with four banks as collateral for personal loans. Flushed, but holding his handsome head high, Mr. Bird heard the prosecutor accuse him of living beyond his means, speculating in the market, and having a "hunger" for directorships. Then Bird's lawyer, George H. Cohen, rose to tell the story behind the crime. His story...
...White Plains, N. Y., Mr. & Mrs. Carroll Timberman served on the same jury. Balloting for the verdict, Mr. Timberman voted for the defendant, his wife for the plaintiff. Final verdict: for the defendant. Boasted Mr. Timberman: "She soon came around to my way of thinking...