Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked as if Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg was the biggest paradox of all. Vandenberg best symbolized all phases and shades of the opposition to embargo repeal, thus was chosen to open debate for the antis, while Clark (diehard extremist) was to manage the Floor fight; and Borah (traditional romantic) was to have the last word. Thus the "Big Michigander,"* always safe, sound, middle-of-the-road, now stood up to the Pretorian Guard of his party-Big Business. For there was no doubt he was flying in the face of Michigan's corporate empire-General Motors. Henry Ford, however, vigorously...
...third year in a row the course "Problems in Industrial Relations" given by Sumner N. Slichter, professor of Business Economics, has been designated as the Leatherbee Lecture Course and will be open to businessmen without charge...
Under the terms of the bequest of the late George H. Leatherbee one course in the Business School is open to properly qualified business and professional men, and Professor Slichter's course has been chosen each year because of the general interest in labor problems...
...their clothes, their hair-cuts, the way they use their hands. Brilliant scholars, lots of these, every fourth man the head of his secondary school class. Athletes, six-foot-one, one hundred eighty, in by the skin of their teeth. Hell-raisers who already know every bar that stays open after hours. High-school boys in dark serge; and prep-school boys wearing tweeds and plaids with the proper air. Social registerites. Dilletantes. Radicals...
...publisher, New York Times; Arthur Krock, Washington correspondent, New York Times; Lucien Price, editorial writer, Boston Globe; and Harry W. Frantz, chief of foreign correspondents of the United Press, Washington. According to present plans the dinners will be held at the Signet Society clubhouse on Dunster Street and be open only to the Nieman Follows and a few specially invited faculty guests...