Word: rotarianism
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...high-domed, Dutch-blooded President Clarence Addison Dykstra is an exceptionally well rounded man. One result is that he has sometimes impressed the state's farmers as too much of a city fellow, the Legislature as too much of a professor, the faculty as too much of a Rotarian type. His resignation last week will take him where folks consider him one of their...
...Tennessee's freshman Congressman Jim McCord, of Lewisburg, learned at first hand some of the tragedies of small business. A Rotarian took him to his Shelbyville hosiery mill, which he now called his "graveyard." Of 54 knitting machines, only five were working, and those on odds & ends. Said the millowner: OPA would allow him only 30 days' supply of raw materials, he could not get labor, his business was going to pot, he had spent the whole morning poring over a new OPA ruling on rayon hosiery and its meaning was still not clear. Jim McCord, a good...
...Republican, Rotarian, Congregationalist, author (15 books), Will White is always an editor first...
...Years of Our Lord (Harper; $2.50), a new novel about the life of Christ to add to the brief fiction shelf which includes Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (over 2,000,000 copies since 1880), George Moore's pale The Brook Kerith (1916), Bruce Barton's Rotarian The Man Nobody Knows (1925) and Sholem Asch's lush The Nazarene (1939). (Some would include Kenan's famed Vie de Jesus...
...ousted from a U. S. university as alleged fifth columnists. But the A. S. U. disclosed that one was Leftist Hugo M. Reichard, of South Plainfield, N. J. Hugo is the youngest of four children of Hungarian immigrants. According to his brothers-one is a garage owner and Rotarian, another a truck driver-Hugo "turned radical" at Rutgers, where he spent his first college year. Vexed at Hugo's radical activities, his father, on his death bed, made the boy promise last year that he would give them up. At Michigan, Hugo ignored his promise, became a ringleader...