Word: potterism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Col. Miller changed his mind, went to the courthouse at Newkirk, posted $16,000 to keep the peace. "He's a sick man," said Prosecutor Bruce Potter. The Colonel's lawyers prepared to appeal to President Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation to save...
...lineups follow: University first team-R. H. Watt '32, L. G. C. Balsan 1G.B., Donald Meiklejohn 1G., J. A. Potter '34, A. W. Sherman '34, Stanton Whitney, Jr. '34, K. F. Armstrong 1G., P. S. deQ. Cabot 1G.Ed., Joseph Oppenheimer '34, John Megaw sL, H. C. Schwyzer '34, R. E. White '34, J. T. Sapienza '34, I. B. Hardy '33, W. S. Burrage...
...foils bouts the competition was exceptionally keen, with J. G. Hurd '34 and Gilbert Kerlin '33 defeating their opponents only to find themselves up against the best swordsmen in the country in the second round. Potter, Yale captain and intercollegiate champion in the foils for the last two years, won his way into the second round with four straight victories, and then overwhelmed Hurd without allowing the Crimson foilsman a single point...
...held baseball services, a Jiggs & Maggie service. He is almost always willing to help the Hearstpapers pick a Typical American Girl. Dr. William Norman Guthrie's tiff with Bishop William Thomas Manning over "dance rituals" kept them both in the headlines for days (TIME, Feb. 8). Rev. Charles Francis Potter of the First Humanist Society described for gumchewers the last hours of Murderer Francis Crowley (TIME, Feb. 1). But very rarely does publicity attach itself to vigorous, wavy-haired Dr. Robert Norwood of St. Bartholomew's, one of the smartest and richest of U. S. Protestant Episcopal churches...
First Obligation. The superintendabnt last week chose Dr. Milton Chase Potter of Milwaukee to be their new president. To Dr. Potter, as the convention closed, went a letter from President Hoover, congratulating "the department of superintendents . . . and the nation upon the inspiration in the high service of education that flows out to the country from its deliberations. These serve again to remind our people that, however the national economy may vary or whatever fiscal adjustments may need to be made, the very first obligation upon the national resources is the undiminished financial support of the public schools. We cannot afford...