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...Weeks of Hornblower & Weeks was Warren Harding's late Secretary of War, John Wingate Weeks. His only son, Sinclair ("Sinkie") Weeks, is president of United-Carr and longtime Republican Mayor of smug Newton, Mass. When not occupied with fasteners, "Sinkie" Weeks bedevils Democratic Governor James M. Curley, whose limousine has twice run down escorting troopers, one of them in "Sinkie's" bailiwick. When Curley denied that he had been personally involved in the Newton crash, "Sinkie" held an investigation, brought forth witnesses who said that they had seen His Excellency in the car. On the side, "Sinkie" Weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Yankee Gadgets | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...American Council on Education, reassured Washington newshawks: "This will not be just another survey." Last week the new commission, made up of President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, onetime President Henry Ingraham Harriman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Novelist Dorothy Canneld Fisher, Newton Diehl Baker and ten others, met with its creator. For it Dr. Zook had two presents which gave his boast solid foundation. One was an $800,000 bankroll, put up by the (Rockefeller-endowed) General Education Board. The other was President Homer Price Rainey of Bucknell University, whom the commission elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: $800,000 Commission | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

Assisting, Dr. Smith in his course will also be Dr. Zenos E. Scott, President of the State Teachers College, Bridgewater, and Julius E. Warren, Superintendent of Schools, Newton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prominent Educators Help to Teach Teachers to Teach | 9/24/1935 | See Source »

Perkins Hall--Theodore F. M. Newton of Montreal, Quebec; Instructor in English and Tutor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Proctors and Their Activities as Undergraduates | 9/20/1935 | See Source »

Lionel A-21--John H. Gleason '30 of Newton; Assistant in History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Proctors and Their Activities as Undergraduates | 9/20/1935 | See Source »

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