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Word: phi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born a Canada of an Irish American father who had been stoker on the Great Lakes and of a mother who have been a scamstress. The candidate the Rev. Charles Coughlin is supporting for the presidency is William Lemke, 56, son of prairie farmers. Candidate Lemark was a Phi Delt at the University of North Dakee where be studied law. The Rev. Charles Coughlin took a doctorate in philosophy at 20 at the University of Toronto. He traveled three months in Europe as there debated a career in the church, politics, sociology. A favorite teacher persuaded him to the first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTED | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

President Richard Spencer Childs of Manhattan's City Club invited William Pickens, field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a Yale Phi Beta Kappa key holder to join. When an acceptance arrived on N.A.A.C.P. stationery, the City Club hastily sent an emissary to beg Ne gro Piekens to let his invitation "drop for fear of doing harm." Officials in Hyannis, Mass., who last month flunked Harvard's crusty 79-year-old President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell in a driving test (TIME, Sept. 14), gave him a new examination, announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 5, 1936 | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...Louis' Boatmen's National Bank. Banker Smith is unlikely to depart from Mr. Fleming's policy of friendship with a Democratic Administration. A Democrat himself, he served for a while under Secretary Morgenthau as a Treasury adviser. White-haired, ruddy well-brushed President Smith wears his Phi Beta Kappa key on his watch chain, said last week: "I am convinced that there is no problem in banking confronting us today which research, education and co-operation cannot solve. They are the bulwarks upon which I base my hope for American banking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bankers at San Francisco | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...they apply to his own class-he could make a good start by comparing myself as the awful example quoted by Mr. Tunis, and the actual facts. Mentally I was good enough to complete the four-years requirements at Harvard in three years with cum laude ranking, and a Phi Beta Kappa key. and only recently I managed to answer TIME'S general information test 97% correctly, so the old faculties seem to be working reasonably well. From the moral aspect, I have never been in jail, am living with the same wife I married 22 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 28, 1936 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...University of Kansas, Beta Theta Pi pledged Freshman Dan Hamilton, son of Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton. Junior Peggy Anne Landon (Pi Beta Phi) signed up for English, Psychology, three courses in Modern European History...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 28, 1936 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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