Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boxing-situation in this country (and consequently everywhere) seems to be getting worse by the minute. The recently arranged Miami bout between Jack Sharkey and Phil Scott, the English horizontal hope, promises to be the biggest and best fiasco to date; which is saying quite a lot considering some of the misfortunes which have taken place in the cauliflower industry of late. About the only claim to fame which Scott can put forth comes from his recent so-called fight with Campolo, who has been variously called the worst, the saddest, and the most pitiful exponent of the leather-slinging...
...trade, our need for an army of trained salesmen and employes is more acute. Following academic education it is, of course, necessary to have practical training. If a man doesn't know his product he is lost, even if he can write as many volumes as Sir Walter Scott. The first necessity for a young man engaged in foreign trade is a knowledge of the particular business in which he is employed. . . . We have seized unfairly the commerce of no people. We have taken no mean advantage of the extremity of others"-President James Augustine Farrell of United States...
...bishop, William D. Walker; attacked also the Standard Oil Co.; won notoriety by marrying two actors of a burlesque troupe on the stage of Rochester's Old Corinthian Theatre. In Philadelphia: he denounced local politicians, Bishop Coadjutor Alexander Mackay-Smith, Bishop Philip Mercer Rhinelander; defended Professor Scott Nearing who was ousted by the University of Pennsylvania for "radicalism." He was tried (1914) before the Chancellor of the Diocese on 14 counts of conduct unbecoming a clergyman and in violation of his ordination vows. The trial, lasting a year, ended in Preacher Richmond's suspension from the Church...
...upon the novel idea of showing ''Honest Abe" as an evil Negro. In a delicate line drawing Volck depicted Lincoln as a Negroid puppet-master capering on a stage, surrounded by his puppets who are seen to be Cabinet Members Chase, Cameron and Welles and Generals Fremont, Scott and McLellan. When, as President-elect in 1861, Lincoln journeyed to Washington, receiving great acclaim in the northern cities, he was warned to forego a visit to Democratic Baltimore. Friends commissioned Allan Pinkerton, spy (later founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency), to investigate. His report influenced Lincoln to make...
Locally this program is to be available for listeners in on station WNAC of Boston. There are to be both speeches and music. The speakers will be Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior and President of Stanford University, and Dr. James Brown Scott '90, Secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace. Dr. Scott, in addition to receiving his A. B. degree at Harvard also received the degree...