Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When quaint Dexter Merriam Keezer became president of little Reed College (Portland, Ore.) five years ago, he ventured a purely academic joke: that Reed might hire a good football team and special professors to keep the players eligible. Early next morning players, coaches and professors began to arrive in droves to offer their services. Dazed President Keezer sent them away, decided not to trifle again with so serious a subject. Last week football came back to plague Mr. Keezer again...
...replace Young, G.E. chose a handsome engineer-lawyer (B.S. in engineering from the University of Wisconsin, LL.B. from Fordham) named Philip D. Reed, who went to G.E. in 1926, worked mostly in the lamp department. Today Philip Reed is only...
Biggest thing on either man's public record is, by all odds, being chosen by Young and Swope. In 1937, when Wilson was vice president in charge of merchandise and appliances, and Reed general counsel to the lamp department, they were plucked and made respectively executive vice president and assistant to the president, there to ripen in the hands of Young and Swope. Last week's news was formal recognition of their coming...
...John Reed Society Comments...
Commenting on President Charles A. Seymour's statement giving the Yale Peace Council the right to use a college hall for its meeting. Robert H. Seidman '41, president of the John Reed Society, Browder's sponsors here, made the following statement...