Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before Secretary Mellon sailed for Europe recently he announced that Seymour Parker Gilbert, Jr., Under Secretary of the Treasury, who had tendered his resignation, consented to remain in office, and assume the duties of Acting Secretary of the Treasury until his superior returned from abroad. This invited attention to a " boy wonder "; for Mr. Gilbert is only 30. Eleven years ago he began to dangle his Rutgers Phi Beta Kappa key. Three years later he took his law degree at Harvard cum laude. Even in 1918 he was only a minor official in the Treasury Department at Washington...
Meanwhile S. Parker Gilbert, only 30, carries on his shoulders the duties of a member of the Cabinet...
...professors resigned from the Amherst faculty as a result of the dramatic misunderstanding which forced President Meiklejohn out. One of them, Rev. Albert Parker Fitch, has a national reputation as a fiery, spiritually prophetic and denunciatory; and passionately intellectual orator...
...people. But he has done more. He has clothed his conception in dramatic form and provided dramatis personae to act the piece. Cecil Rhodes who lured young Americans to England for propaganda purposes is the chief villain, supported in the minor roles by Andrew Carnegie, Lord Northcliffe, Sir Gilbert Parker, Lady Astor, Elihu Root, Owen Wister, Dr. Neilson of Smith, the Sulgrave Institute, the English Speaking Union, the Pilgrim Society, the Sons of St. George. Probably nothing but his artistic sense of the exigencies of the stage prevented the commissioner from adding the names of all American citizens of British...
...Also Parker Fellowships for travel and study to Erik Achorn 4G., of Jamaica Plain, who will hold his fellowship for the second year to study history; Marvin Farber 1G., of Buffalo, N. Y., now the holder of a Sheldon Fellowship for the study of philosophy; Carl A. Garabedian 4G., of Cambridge, whose subject is mathematics; and Garrett Mattingly '23, of Allegan, Mich., who holds this year a Sheldon Prize Fellowship for the study of history...