Word: phi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most famed trainer of trotting horses in the U. S. In one Hambletonian, Goshen trotting classic, four Cox horses led the field. The Brothers Cox stem from pre-Revolutionary New Hampshire stock, were raised in Manchester, where their father was in business. John Hancock's Cox earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Dart mouth (Class of 1893). He then studied law at Boston University, was long a part ner of William Morgan Butler, onetime (1924-26) Senator from Massachusetts and campaign manager for Calvin Coolidge. Now 65, punctual, precise, New England-ish, Guy Cox likes to fish, farm...
...another national election, the Republicans are announcing their own "brain trust" Republican college professors to show Democratic college professors they are wrong. Heading the new "trust" is Dr. Olin Glenn sazon, professor of business administration at Yale, Harvard Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Olin once a broker at other times a lawyer is quick spoken and business like no dreamer to displace Republican Big Business aligned against the Administration...
Melone, who comes from Minneapolis, Minnesota, is chairman of Eliot House Committee, chairman of the '87 Album committee, and Phi Beta Kappa. He is also on the news board of the CRIMSON AND was a member of the Freshman boxing team...
...well-to-do independent oil producer, Alf Landon belonged to Phi Gamma Delta at University of Kansas in 1904-08. Fraternity records show that he got the ice cream course eliminated from the house menu, tried and failed to have only one orchestra instead of two hired for the spring lawn party, outlawed gambling in the chapter house, opposed motions to install a stein rack and to discontinue "Dr. Wilbur's Bible lessons." No niggard, however, Alf Landon gave the fraternity a cuspidor. No "Christer," he downed his beer with other members of Theta Nu Epsilon, oldtime campus drinking...
...took the family out of Kansas to prospect for oil wells, and one of his wells "came in." So in 1904, when son Alfenrolled at the University of Kansas, he didn't have to work his way through college, as had college men Knox, Hoover and Borah. Alf joined Phi Gamma Delta, the "rich boys fraternity" of his day at Kansas, and proceeded to make a reputation for himself of being stingy. He had the first tuxedo in town, yet be campaigned successfully to cut the ice cream course from the house menu. He fought hard to have only...