Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after Samuel Gompers was laid in his grave in Tarrytown, N. Y. in 1924, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor announced his successor as chief of U. S. Labor: William Green. No one was more surprised than inconspicuous Mr. Green. Old Cigarmaker Gompers, who regarded the A. F. of L. as his own personal property, had willed the job to Matthew Woll, head of the little Photo Engravers Union. But having grown restive under long Gompers rule, the individualistic members of the A. F. of L. high command were in no mood to honor the cigarmaker...
...lately been restored by United Fruit Co.'s famed agronomist Dr. Wilson ("Pop") Popenoe and his wife. Guest of Dr. Popenoe for two weeks, Author Adamic decided the house warranted a book. A further incentive arose from his enthusiastic agreement with United Fruit Co.'s Managing Director Samuel Zemurray, who had said of the natives: "They've got something, those people down there; they've got something." Author Adamic's enthusiasm runs to 300 pages (illustrated), comprising a rather labored history of Antigua for the last 400 years, a mostly imaginary picture of the conquistadores...
Since 1924, when Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History, was appointed Tercentenary Historian, Harvard had been making preparations for its celebration, and undergraduates and others were from time to time fanned with news of the progress. Now the Tercentenary Days are a year old. The Class of 1941 is the first which was not at Cambridge then; it is the first absolutely foreign to it. It is the first of many Classes which will gain most from reading Mr. Greene's book...
...trophy is donated by the seven Advocate Trustees who include Professor Charles Abbott '28, Bernard P. Day '25, Walter D. Edmonds, Roy E. Larsen '21, Hoffman Nickerson '11, Hon. Samuel H. Ordway, Jr. '21, and Frank A. Vanderlip...
...Like Samuel Johnson, the first great English lexicographer, Emily Post, the first great lexicographer of U. S. manners, had the opportunity of imposing many of her personal prejudices as rules for contemporary and future generations to follow. Emily Bruce Price Post-who 30-odd years ago married and divorced Edwin Main Post, Manhattan banker and socialite-was but a comely divorcée somewhat in need of cash, a woman whose horizon was largely bounded by Newport and Park Avenue when she unwittingly wrote a book which was to make her fame and fortune. Today...