Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marked the high-point for the number of full professorships in English, and this was caused by three promotions, all occurring at the same time. In that year, Professor Bush; Robert S. Hillyer '17, present Bolyston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; and Francis P. Magoun '16, Professor of Comparative Literature, were all advanced...
...statement describing the nature and aims of the John Reed Society, its president, Robert B. Seidman '41, yesterday emphasized that the organization is strictly non-political and that only a minority of its members are Communists...
Pointing a long finger, Senate President Robert C. Hendrickson shoved it directly under the falcon nose of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague, charged that he alone was responsible for Jersey Central's bankruptcy. Reason: Boss Hague blocked the railroad tax compromise. Hague excuse: The bill was an attempted "tax steal." Roared he: "They are walking out with $35,000,000, and they are going to crucify Hague because he tells them they can't take that. . . . Mr. Railroads, just as long as the small taxpayers must submit, you'll submit. . . . Hague and Hagueism will haunt...
...business sold 58,000,000 tons for $345,000,000-a record. Six years later only 60% of its business was left and the electric refrigerator had doubled its sales. Then, in 1935, paunchy Robert Carl Suhr, president of 24-State, $44,000,000 City Ice & Fuel Co., was less scared than most icemen. He had jumped the rest of the industry five years, had brought his company out of the drippy-wagon, pickerel-pond stage, had $25,710,324 sales and $2,972,997 net income. By the end of 1935, other icemen put Suhr at the head...
...article which has perhaps the most lasting significance is the somewhat discouraging review of Harvard's reaction to the first year or two of the World War by G. Robert Stange '41. The theme which is here introduced is one which runs throughout the present issue: the fear that America will be again drawn into the European war. The warnings deduced from a survey of the past are bolstered by an editorial based upon the new program of the Student Union and by a reasoned plea of Porter Sargent '96, for a greater wariness in the face...