Word: pugsley
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Action on the proposal made yesterday that Herbert Hoover should be named president of Harvard will not be taken until after the Christmas vacation, University officials declared last evening. In a letter of reply to C. D. Pugsley '09, of Peekskill, New York, who made the suggestion, H. L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of the University, stated that the proposal would be submitted to the Corporation as soon as that body met for the purpose of selecting a president...
Announced last week as winner of the $1,000 Pugsley award for the best piece of Washington correspondence during 1931 was large, serious Jesse Frederick Essary, for 20 years chief of the Baltimore Sun's bureau at the capital. Correspondent Essary's prize-winning article, published March 5, 1931, was cited for "reportorial skill and industry in bringing to light the hitherto unknown facts and circumstances of the Wickersham Commission's exhaustive report on Prohibition." Honorably mentioned for their work were Charles Griffith Ross (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), Walker Showers Buel (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Ashmun Norris Brown...
...School Research Fellowship: H. B. Ely, New York City; Pugsley Scholarship: Fritz Grob, Zurich, Switzerland; Emmons Scholarships: T. A. McGovern, Los Angeles, California; J. D. O'Reilly, Jr., South Boston, Mass.; Graduate School of Business Administration, Stoughton Scholarship: C. N. Jacobson, Dorchester, Mass.; Medical School, John White Browne Fellowship: Dr. W. T. Green, Kim, Indiana...
...Premier Jorga said that a rich American had just offered to found an Institute of International Affairs at Bucharest. "His name is Mr. Chester D. Pugsley," said Professor Jorga, "and he lives in the city of Peekskill in the State of New York. I have been happy to accept on behalf of the Royal Government this magnificent offer." Diligently down a column of Who's Who, Lawyer-Banker Pugsley itemizes his 16 principal charitable bequests which foot up to a total $538.400, plus "40 oil portraits to institutions...
...EDWIN PUGSLEY...