Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Included in the Junior nominations are: Robert S. Brookings, II, Francis H. Burr, Eliot D. Cantor, Robert B, Cutter, Samuel S. Durry, Jr., Richard W. Emory, Charles K. Howard, Osborne F. Ingram, Randolph A. Kidder, Thomas F. Locke, Donald V. McGranahan, Francis D. Moore, Arthur S. Pier, Jr., Sumner Rodman, Arthur W. Todd, and Charles F. Woodward...
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge 3rd's great-great-great-grandfather was the President from Monticello. His grandmother was a Randolph of Virginia; his grandfather was a president of the Santa Fe Railroad and, later, McKinley's Ambassador to France. His father was the founder and president of Boston's Old Colony Trust Co. In 1914, playing left-end for Harvard in the opening game in the Yale Bowl, young Coolidge scooped up a Yale fumble, almost on Harvard's goal line, and ran 98 yards for a touchdown. A year later Harvard graduated him, Phi Beta Kappa...
Never completely happy bedfellows are William Randolph Hearst, Roy Wilson Howard and the Associated Press. In the old days they were always at one another's throats. Roy Howard, as president of that lusty upstart, the United Press, battled the powerful old AP at every turn. Publisher Hearst, with a news service of his own (International), was long viewed with grave distrust by his brother members...
...Hearst hatchet was buried nine years ago at an AP annual meeting in Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria, and Hearst-papers now hold 15 memberships. Last year William Randolph Hearst Jr. was elected to the honorable but empty job of an AP vice president. Roy Howard, too, as head of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, made his peace with AP several years ago and now controls six memberships. Last year he visited the Orient at the same time as Kent Cooper, AP's able general manager, and the two were wined and dined together like the best of friends...
...Harry L. Doherty's dinner at the Miami-Biltmore. The next day. a crowd of 20,000 gathered along the shores of Lake Wrorth, the narrow blue inlet between Palm Beach and the mainland, to watch the finals of boats powered by Class X motors for the William Randolph Hearst Trophy and the championship of the world. Drivers who had won at least one of the nine earlier races were eligible for the final. Young Horace Tennes, Northwestern University sophomore who wears a brace on a neck he broke diving last summer, had won four. France's Dupuy...