Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince Nondiyavat Svasti, younger brother of Siam's small Queen Rambai Barni, was graduated from Georgetown University. From Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.) was graduated Paul All-man Siple, Erie Boy Scout who accompanied the Byrd expedition to the South Pole in 1930. At Germantown Academy (Pa.), Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy Jr., son of the Athletics' famed manager, won the Robert E. Lamberton Medal for the best record in athletics (baseball, basketball, football) and scholarship...
...picture because they are all in the night club. Director Hobart Henley can thus change the subject whenever one set of characters begins to get dull, as in Vicki Baum's kaleidoscopic Grand Hotel. Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout. She pities a young patron (Lew Ayres) who is the scion of a famed murder case and drinks to forget. Young love burgeons while gyp and doublecross are rampant all around, practiced by the proprietor (Boris Kar-loff), his wife (Dorothy Revier), her lover, the guests and Lew Ayres...
Going on to defend the professional coaching under the old system, Stevens maintained that the paid coach is an export, that he has to know his job, and finally, that so far they have proved satisfactory. Also under the new program, if Yale were not to scout the teams which scout her, an extremely embarrassing and unjust situation would arise...
...president of Todd Shipyards Corp., close friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith; a few minutes after falling downstairs in his son's Brooklyn home. Son of a boilermaker, he lived to be called "the master shipbuilder of the Western Hemisphere." After the War, for which he had built many scout cruisers and minesweepers, he gave $1,000,000 to the 15,000 men on his payroll. Asked if he did it to prevent labor troubles, he replied, "Hell, no! I gave it to the boys because they earned it. ... You can't buy the loyalty of labor with a million times...
...gift of $250,000 to establish and endow a school for Boy Scout leaders was made by Mrs- Jacob H. Schiff as a me morial to her son the late Mortimer Leo Schiff, Kuhn, Loeb partner and Boy Scout president...