Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice, the youngest (45) Cabinet member can point to studies at University of Michigan (law degree, 1914), Lincoln's Inn, London and Trinity College, Dublin. As a chief assistant U. S. District Attorney (1920-23), his greatest feat was sending two big Army grafters to prison. He served seven years (1923-30) on the bench of Detroit's Recorder's Court, handling criminal cases with the enlightening aid of a psychiatrist and a sociologist, his own innovation. In two terms as Detroit's mayor, three years as Governor-General of the Philippines, and two more...
Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, for 35 years in the U. S. Foreign Service, is rated one of the ablest career diplomats in U. S. employ. For the last seven years he has held down one of the toughest diplomatic assignments which the State Department has to hand out, the post of Ambassador to Japan. No small measure of his success has been the amiable, unostentatious way he has done...
Among the thirty-seven previous recipients of the Wendell scholarship are Samuel H. Cross '12, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard; Robert M. Green '02, Associate Professor of Applied Anatomy at Harvard; Seth T. Gane '07, Boston, secretary of the class of 1907 and former treasurer of Phi Beta Kappa; Jeffries Wyman Jr. '23 Associate Professor of zoology at Harvard; Mason Hammond '25, Assistant Professor of History and of Greek and Latin at Harvard; and George Is, Haskins '35, Junior Member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard...
...that wall Mexico City. One rail route down to the Gulf at Veracruz skirts the hills around Tlaxcala, 45 miles east of Mexico City. One morning last week more than 1,000 Government employes and their families, off for a collective workers' Christmas holiday, jammed their way into seven obsolete wooden, second-class cars, equipped inside with long, hard, wooden benches. Seven classier steel cars completed the train. Rounding a curve on a downgrade near Tlaxcala, the locomotive broke an axle, jumped the track and spilled all 14 coaches down the slope. Toll: according to press reports, 40 dead...
Greville had several love affairs and one illegitimate child, but compared with Pepys, Bachelor Greville was a veritable monk. It is easy to see why his love affairs were few and brief. After keeping a beautiful, well-mannered mistress at Lord Wharncliffe's villa for seven weeks ("Henry de Roos, who is the grand purveyor of women to all his friends, gave her to me"), 35-year-old Greville bitterly philosophizes that on account of her he has read no more than a dozen heavy volumes, doubts "if ever I shall take one to live with me again...