Word: severities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Texas Corp. directors had to face a further decision: whether to sever Director Rieber from the company completely by taking away his directorship. For the rank & file of Texas Corp. employes, that question was academic. They knew it would be a cold day before they could forget the greying, generous, powerfully built man who slapped them on the back and said: "This is the best God damn company in the world"; who built the famed Barco pipeline in Colombia after they said it couldn't be done; who once exclaimed: "Hell, if they wanted to move...
...secret was it that unofficial U. S. promises of economic aid had much to do with swinging other countries into line behind the Hull program. Back of the diplomatic front in Havana had worked sever al men who held the strings of the U. S. moneybags: President Milo Randolph Perkins of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., Earl N. Bressman, economic adviser to Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace, young Paul H. Nitze, adviser to President Roosevelt's $10,000-a-year cartelman, James Vincent Forrestal...
...many years past, the alumni will parade to the afternoon meeting in Sever Quadrangle, in order of seniority, passing in review before the Commencement, dignitaries gathered on the steps of the Widener Library. Dr. Cutler will preside at the meeting, which will include greetings by Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, a report to the alumni on the Harvard year by President Conant, addresses by two of the day's honorary degree recipients, announcement of alumni elections, and the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner," the 78th Psalm, and "Fair Harvard." The exercises will be broadest by the non-commercial shortwave station...
...competition which was held yesterday in Holden Chapel was Edward C. K. Read '40. He will serve as alternate if Clark is for any reason unable to speak. Other candidates were Ward M. Hussey '40, Stanley H. Kapner '40, Theodore L. Sendak '40, and John W. Sever...
Some ten thousand men of Harvard--not to mention nearly half of Cambridge's female population--jammed Sever Quadrangle last evening to hear Conductor Woodworth lead his Glee Club through a program which packed plenty of musical oomph. "Casey Jones" rode the rails again, while Handel's "Samson" buffeted the pillars of Widener. Judging by its tumultuous applause, academic Cambridge clearly appreciated the first of these free, outdoor concerts...