Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Donald Fitch of the State Department was at the pier in Manhattan to meet square-chinned Chief Constable Albert Canning of what is properly called the Criminal Investigation Department. He is its first chief to have risen from the ranks. C. I. D.'s Canning proceeded inconspicuously to Washington to discuss with the Secret Service plans for the safety of George VI & Queen Elizabeth on an itinerary of some 1,500 miles with many ticklish spots...
...When Dean Helen Taft Manning of Bryn Mawr College-isolationist sister of Presidentially ambitious Senator Robert A. Taft who last week accused Franklin D. Roosevelt of "ballyhooing" war in order to play politics (see p. 21)-urged the same committee to stiffen the present neutrality law and make it more instead of less inflexible, arch-isolationist Senator Borah demanded: "Haven't the people [of the U. S.] already made up their minds who is right and who is wrong? The world is already at war. Already things have taken place which make other nations look...
...Lecturing at Harvard, Park Commissioner Robert Moses of New York City said: "In practice, every American knows that we cannot remain absolutely aloof from another world conflict... we shall be lucky if this aid can be confined to money, materials and munitions as distinguished from...
...Robert T. Gannett '39, Chairman of the Undergraduate Athletic Council, announced last night that the plan for a student referendum on the question of abolition of minor sports, recommended by a recent Council report, would be submitted to the higher Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports at its meeting early next week...
Latest development in the stormy minor and Jayvee sports abolition issue is the recommendation of the Undergraduate Athletic Council, headed by Robert T. Gannett '39, that the Student Council sponsor a poll to find out whether or not its plans have secured general acceptance among the undergraduates as a whole...