Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary & Treasurer of the College Board is red-faced, white-haired Professor Thomas Scott Fiske of Columbia University. He starts the brownstone house humming long before examination time. Last December he summoned the examiners?college and secondary school instructors?to begin work on the papers which are to be given in June 1933. In May the papers went to the printers. Last week the examining proctors at schools and examining centres all over the world handed out papers prepared in December 1930. They did it simultaneously every day, allowing for differences in time, to thwart shrewd youngsters who might receive...
This time there was to be no mistake about the calibre of the demonstration. Movie lights were switched on in ample time to record the climax of the Scott speech. Each delegate had been given a small U. S. flag and a noisemaking gadget. High above the rostrum a flag fell from the illuminated portrait of the President. Delegate Louis B. Mayer of California, partner in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was there in person to project ghostly slides of President Hoover on screens at each end of the hall. Senator Fess. again cackling with joy, produced a huge Hoover portrait...
...Edith Scott Magna, president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution LL.D...
...Walter Scott (her father), Manhattan merchant and philanthropist L.H.D...
...Church; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Anglo-Catholic in his communion, Dr. Stetson was a foe of divorce, birth-control. He denounced large church weddings as "often vulgar as well as pagan." As head of the Corporation of Trinity Church, he administered the richest U. S. parish.* Died. Robert Scott Lovett, 71, board chairman of Union Pacific Railroad; after an operation; in Manhattan. A slow-spoken son of a slave owner, he entered railroading as a stump-puller when the Houston, East & West Texas pushed through his father's farm. Rising as a local attorney for Texas & Pacific...