Word: myer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irving Myer London '39, Grays 5-6, was given the Phi Betta Kappa key, and elected Second Marshal...
...other concerned General George Marshall, Chief of Staff, who had planned a small dinner party at his home in Fort Myer, phoned home to his wife at three in the afternoon to say he had suddenly been ordered out of town, did not know his destination...
Hans Heyman 3G, President; Fred Chang 3G, Vice-President; Robert Rennie 3G, Treasure; Jack Baldwin '43, Secretary; Edward Mysliwy '43, Chairman of the Social Committee; and Norman Myer '43, head of the Committee on Membership and Publicity...
Since that day, jovial Joe Engel has probably discovered more big-time baseballers than any other scout in the business. He dug up Goose Goslin, Alvin Crowder, Bump Hadley, Buddy Myer, Cecil Travis, Bucky Harris. He also unearthed Joe Cronin, picked up in Kansas City for $7,500 and sold seven years later -after he had become the Senators' manager and married the boss's daughter - to the Boston Red Sox for $250,000. Engel's "finds" helped bring Washington three pennants in ten years...
Published in Chicago was the 1940-41 Who's Who in America, biennial roster of notables. Total Who's: 31.752. Biggest Who (since the deaths of Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo and Lawyer Samuel Unter-myer): Nicholas Murray Butler, 119 lines, Newcomers: Shirley Temple ("decorations awarded from eight States"), Deanna Durbin ("singer, actress"), Frank Buck ("interested in wild animals"). Definitely Republican: Wendell Willkie, formerly a Democrat. First time in 14 years: Pronouncing dictionary of difficult names. Revived: Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan and president of the American Friends of France, inexplicably listed in the 1938-39 volume...