Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commemorate the anniversary last fall, a section has been given over to the Tercentenary. An historical sketch by Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of History and Tercentenary Historian, is inset with small cuts, from Harvard's past, followed by an account of the Tercentenary Days by John B. Bowditch '37, which is framed by bleed-off panels of scenes from the celebration...
White-haired Mrs. Samuel D. Riddle, wife of Philadelphia's 76-year-old turfman, has a sentimental custom: when Trainer George Conway thinks there is an especially promising race horse in her husband's stable, she knits him a woolen pommel cloth. Knitted pommel cloths went to Crusader, Scapa Flow, War Glory. Most famed horse that got one was their sire, Man o' War. Latest beneficiary of Mrs. Riddle's knitting needles is another one of Man o' War's sons, an undersized three-year-old named War Admiral. Last week, War Admiral made...
...gold output disturbed even the august assembly of the Bank for International Settlements meeting last week in Basle, Switzerland. On hand were such central banking potentates as Britain's Montagu Norman, Germany's Hjalmar Schacht, France's Emile Labeyrie. Representing the U. S. was Vice President Samuel A. Welldon of Manhattan's First National Bank...
Among post-NRA expedients of the Administration which make Hugh Samuel Johnson hot under the collar is the undistributed profits tax. Wrote General Johnson in his Scripps-Howard column last month: "I know a small company that was started with adequate capital in 1929. The crash hit it just as it was getting under way. By some miracle of management it was kept alive through the long valley of the shadow of industrial death from 1929 to 1935. ... In 1936 for the first time it made money—enough money to pay off its debts...
Elected Tew's successor at Goodrich's annual meeting in Manhattan last week was Samuel Brown Robertson, 59, who went to Goodrich in 1919 after 20 years as a supervising engineer for Pennsylvania Railroad. As director of engineering for the rubber company, big, husky Sam Robertson built the $4,000,000 Goodrich plant at Los Angeles, which is considered a model in the industry...