Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heads and shoulders of hundreds of young men and women, undergraduates of the University of Washington. They were vigorously and visibly protesting against the enforced resignation of President Henry Suzzallo, who, the young men and women told each other, was being dismissed without a hearing from Washington by Governor Roland H. Hartley (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). As Wartime wage umpire of the National Labor Board, President Suzzallo had sponsored the eight-hour day for lumbermen, a policy irksome to timber-owning Governor Hartley. Technical cause for the rift was a disagreement about educational policy, but President Suzzallo left Washington...
...Helen Choate Bell prize, awarded for theses of merit in the field of American literature, was won by William E. Wilson 1G, of Evansville, Indiana. The John Osborne Sargent prize, for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace, was won by Roland Marandin Minns '31, Davison scholar of Surrey, England. The selection for 1929-1930 was the fifth ode of the third book of Horace...
Discussed was Professor Roland McMillan Harper's striking discovery that there is a definite correlation between the ownership of motor cars and the prevalence of divorce. Professor Harper, geographer, now research professor of economics at the University of Georgia, adduced as proof that, in the U. S., wealth, motor cars and divorces have all increased in recent years faster than the population, and that they all are more prevalent in cities than in country districts...
Appointed. Roland William Boyden, 66, Boston lawyer, Wartime counsel for U. S. food administration, unofficial U. S. "observer" at Reparations Commission meetings; to be a member of The Hague Court of Arbitration* vice Charles Evans Hughes; by President Hoover...
...important players of the cast will be the following: Constable, R. A. Dunn '32; Darrell, P. G. Hoffman '32; Colonel Roland, J. F. Joyce Jr. '32; Anne, Adele wood R'30; Lady Morecombe, Jane Mast R'32; Secretary, Alice Mason R'31; Surgeon, E. R. Foster...