Word: petters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard won both the foils and sabre competitions by 5-4 margins. Captain Philip E. Lilienthal '36, Richard Morgan, 4th '36, and William F. Gerber '37 turned in outstanding performances for Harvard, while Bertsche, Jacobs Petter, and Weidel showed up well for Columbia...
...incomplete list of the patronesses includes Mrs. G. R. Agassia Mrs Irving Babbitt. Mrs. Roger Bigelow, Mrs Edward Bujrlingame, Mrs. George R.s Edgell Miss Jeane Edwards, Mrs. George Feete, Mrs. J. D. M. Ferd. Mrs Joseph Mercter, Mrs. Andre Morise Mrs. T. N. Perkins. Mrs. J. M. Petter, Mrs E. K. Rand, Mrs, Paul Sachs Mrs. C. R. C. Wright...
...this power was suddenly switched like a high-voltage current into St. George's some weeks ago, the object being to elect one Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter. This inoffensive knight, the irregular Conservative candidate, was not originally the presslords' mannikin. He entered the lists at St. George's supported by a dignified group of manufacturers who wanted to air the issue of high protective tariffs v. low protective tariff or "safeguarding." Sir Ernest Petter was to advocate high tariffs, and the regular Conservative candidate. Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, husband of beauteous Lady Diana Manners, would of course support "safeguarding...
...Petter's Bombshell. With a single blow of his hard Canadian fist, Baron Beaverbrook shattered the idyllic calm of poor Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter. Sir Ernest was told that he could either get up on his feet and fight the presslords' battle against Stanley Baldwin or they would smash his candidacy by putting up a third Conservative candidate. What could he do but accept the aid of two such very rich...
...some 6,000,000 morning and evening papers white-haired, drab-mustached Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter's picture promptly appeared. Said the Rothermere Daily Mail: "Sir Ernest Petter, one of the country's foremost business men, threw a bombshell into official Conservative circles last night...