Word: richards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effects of the decreasing population curve of Harvard enrollment cannot be determined as yet," declared Dr. Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, concerning a magazine article by Stuart Chase on the declining birth rate...
According to an announcement of Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, last night, Dr. Richard Prager, lately of the University of Berlin and one of the leading European astronomers, will arrive in Boston tomorrow on the Samaria to join the research staff of the Harvard College Observatory. Research work on variable stars will keep him at Harvard for at least two years...
Guests of honor from Cambridge will be William Bingham, Director of Athletics, Jerome D. Green, Secretary to the Harvard University Corporation, Torbert H. Macdonald '40, captain of next year's gridders, Richard H. Sullivan '39, President of the Undergraduate Council, and Dudley Talbot '38, leader of the '39 crew...
...winter of 1937-38 a frightened man named Richard Whitney tried to peg the stock of Distilled Liquors Corp. at 9. He failed and went to jail. Last week, having totted up its third consecutive deficit, $74,149 in 1938, Distilled Liquors (applejack, bourbon, rye) announced it was going to expand into the importing business (16 varieties of wine, three whiskies). Its stock...
...Manhattan Publisher Richard Leo Simon bought a house from Hugh Satterlee, a tax consultant and kin to J. P. Morgan. While he was at it, smart Publisher Simon persuaded Mr. Satterlee to write a book showing people how to fill out their income tax returns. The 1936 and 1937 versions of Your Income Tax sold 80,000 copies. There was no 1938 edition. Last week Simon & Schuster came out with a brand-new edition in a glaring yellow cover bearing the wily subtitle, How to Keep it Down...