Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the nation's 2,584,000 unemployed last month, perhaps the most distinguished was grey-haired Ralph K. Davies of Woodside, Calif. He had joined the Standard Oil Co. of California as a 16-year-old junior clerk, rose to $57,000 (a year) as senior vice president, and was in line for its presidency when, in 1941, he left to run the wartime oil industry for Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. His war job done, Davies found himself relegated to a minor vice presidency at Standard. He resigned rather than let Ickes-who had bought ten shares...
Died. The Rev. Paul Dwight Moody, 68, onetime president of Middlebury College (1921-42), ex-senior chaplain of the A.E.F., son of the late famed Evangelist Dwight L. Moody; of a heart attack; in Shrewsbury...
...story of the crippled boy who conquers his handicap through athletic application was repeated last Sunday with a Harvard twist when Forbed H. Norris, Jr. '49, representing the University, won the Senior National A. A. U. long distance swimming championship at Williams Lake, Rosendale, New York...
Conductor Bruno Walter picked her to sing Leonore in an English version of Fidelia in 1945. Wrote the New York Times's Senior Music Pundit Olin Downes: "[She] showed that she had the voice, the high intelligence and the dramatic sincerity required for Leonore's great role. . . . The voice is of a warm color and stamina and resourcefulness throughout its range...
...tightest and most expertly rowed of all six races, Joe Eldredge nosed out a former titlist, Tom Day, who finished second, and Bill Dowd, clerk of course, and Julie Eisenstein, both of whom tied for third, for the senior singles championship. Not more than a length separated all your oarsmen. Eldredge was timed...