Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Epee: J. William Croach, Jr., '40, Edward G. Davis, Jr., '38, Lester C. Miller '39, Halford W. Park, Jr., '40, Eugene L. Saenger '38, and Hans H. Zinsser...
...People's Mandate to End War. Led by Pacifist Elise Burton Musser, former Utah State Senator, the members of the flying junket-Mrs. Enoch Wesley Frost of Arkansas, Mrs. Ana del Pulgar de Burke of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Rebecca Hourwich Reyher of New York-left Hyde Park, N. Y. on October 30, with President Roosevelt's benediction, to exhort the Latin American nations into ratifying the Inter-American conference peace treaties (TIME...
...Elkins Park, an otherwise undistinguished suburb of Philadelphia, Millionaire Joseph Early Widener occupies a stiff Georgian mansion known as Lynnewood Hall. Leathery, spick & span Mr. Widener owns one of the crack racing stables of the world, has Godfathered two swank racetracks-Long Island's Belmont Park and Miami's Hialeah. Less familiar facts about Sportsman Widener are that his Lynnewood Hall contains the choicest private collection of Old Masters in the U. S., that he himself is a cultural servant of Philadelphia. In that capacity last week 64-year-old "Joe" Widener became the centre...
Schulte Retail Stores Corp. has had its ups & downs-or more precisely, one up & one down. It controls Huyler's as well as the 268 Schulte shops mostly on U. S. street corners. President David Albert Schulte is also president of Dunhill International, Inc. and with associates controls Park & Tilford. In 1926 Schulte Retail earned over $6,000,000 on total assets of a little more than $40,000,000. And yet in 1936, though its customers were smoking more furiously than ever, Schulte Retail Stores filed for reorganization under the Bankruptcy Act. Reason was Mr. Schulte...
...view better, but cheerfully admits that he has taken many of his opinions from humbler authorities who include "Mrs. Huang, an amah in my family; a Soochow boatwoman with her profuse use of expletives; a Shanghai street car conductor ... a lion cub in the zoo; a squirrel in Central Park in New York. . . ." But his main guide is himself...