Word: senior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt who, in one of his inspired moments, launched the Florida Ship Canal with $5,000,000 of relief money last autumn, day after the S. S. Dixie went aground in the treacherous Florida Keys. But it was Florida's senior Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, to whom the President owed much gratitude for important New Deal service in the chairmanship of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, who got credit for selling the idea at the White House and who became its champion in the Capitol. An inland waterways enthusiast since he went to the Senate...
Opening with the Senior Class Chapel Service led by Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, Harvard's Commencement day will begin at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning...
President Conant will then award the honorary degree and the degrees to those graduating from the University. The senior class marshals who will accept the degrees on behalf of the class will be Shaun Kelly, Jr. '36, Richard Maguire '36 and Robert C. Hall...
...very betimes, about 8 o'clock, waked by a blasted noise between a band, a drunk and a junk man, nobody after I up being able to tell me what it was. But--did say it be no noise at all, but only a brain disturbance of the Senior Spread affair, and this I can believe, for never in my life have I been to such a sweaty, messy affair, nor had such poor supper, nor heard such good music but with so little space to make merry in. Bless my soul, scarce lives there...
...succeed Michael J. O'Brien, a local partner of Paine, Webber & Co., who had held the post thrice. White-haired President Benson got his start in his father's real estate firm, shifted to American Can Co., later went into roofing. A broker since 1910, he became senior partner of F. M. Zeiler & Co. in 1923. Handsome, humorous, immaculately dressed, "Brick" Benson likes to fish, play golf, lives in suburban Winnetka. Asked about the outlook for U. S. securities, Broker Benson declared: "In spite of all talk about inflation and so forth, there is no place...