Word: roth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proof that Harvard is not the only college in the country to encounter difficulty in providing its students with proper comestibles was afforded yesterday by F. H. Roth Division Manager of the Waldorf System, Mr. Roth affirmed that Cornell, similarly confronted by the eating situation six years ago, solved the problem nicely by constructing a huge common dining-hall that accommodates 1200 men at each meal...
...more closely together, probably being responsible for the spirit that has made the "Big Red" dreaded on the gridiron during the last six years. A Cornell undergraduate allows himself 30 to 25 minutes for each meal, ample time for both conversation and digestion. A Harvard cafeteria habitue, according to Roth, absorbs his nutriment in less than 15 minutes...
Yale, too, said Mr. Roth, has seen and conquered its gastronomical crisis. The Eli eaters receive food in a common dining-hall; they have menus prepared by experts. All the cooking is attended to by feminine hands. Yale is now content, but two years ago it seethed with anti-lunch room sentiment. A dyspeptic group of agitators successfully raised their voices. The result is historic. The lunch rooms of New Haven stand empty, deserted are the purveyors of hot frankforts...
...able, not unphilosophical editor of Beau and of the two Two World magazines is one Samuel Roth, 'a foreign looking man, in the late thirties with a round, soft, plump face, irregular mouth and a liking for pink-checked neckties, striped flannel shirts...
...President last week exercised his first veto on any bill passed by the present Congress - a bill directing him to reappoint one Captain Chester A. Roth well, who was discharged from the Engineering Corps of the Army because twelve Generals on an Efficiency Board had found that the Captain was "lacking in attention to duty, initiative and administrative ability, careless, indifferent and failing to take advantage of his opportunities for employment." The President decided to uphold the Efficiency Board, since he had no reason for reversing...