Word: passers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Garbed in traditional black robes and caps, 2,700 degree recipients heard views on the coming elections, literature, and America's foreign policy this morning from Francis J. DiMento '48, James Kerans '48, and Harold C. Passer '43 2G, the three student speakers...
...Passer, a 1943 summa cum laude who received an A.M. in Economics today, spoke on what he termed "the new dollar diplomacy which uses our financial resources to promote world peace.... America, the strongest nation, must accept the major responsibility for establishing a lasting peace," he declared...
After an opening greeting by University Marshal Reginald T. Fitz '08, three students will deliver the traditional Commencement parts. Francis J. Dimento '48 will deliver the Latin Salutatory, "De Comitiis Proximis;" James Karens '48 the English Dissertation, on "An Attitude Towards Literature;" and Harold C. Passer '43 2G an oration on "The New Dollar Diplomacy...
...first job was running a pushcart. Then he signed on as a coal passer on the steamship Dochra and made a trip to South America. After that, he was on his own. He worked in the fire rooms of Hudson River night boats. He "carried the hod" during construction of the Woolworth Building and many another Manhattan building, and made $19.25 a week...
Unplugged. Connors is an ex-jailbird. An ex-hot check passer and panhandler, he now & then augmented his income by filching nickels from telephone coinboxes. He would stuff toilet paper into the return slot, wait a couple of hours, then unplug the jackpot. He has spent over a year in jail...