Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale appointed Charles Seymour, suave & able Chairman of the History Department, to be Provost of the University; appointed also Shakespearean Actor Douglas W. Ross to be drama coach, to succeed Edgar M. Woolley...
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman, whose arm, so he said last month, (TIME, Sept. 19), "grows tired" some days signing dismissals from the Prohibition forces, took pen in hand one day last week and signed an order addressed to U. S. customs officials. The order instructed the customs men to make a stiff increase in the duty on automobile and bicycle parts, and certain other hardware including cement and vulcanized fibres, imported from France...
Likely candidates for the vacant governorship seemed to be: Agent General for Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert; Edward Henry Cun- ningham of Iowa, already a Federal Reserve Board member; William P. Gould Harding, governor of the Boston Federal bank. Mr. Harding was Mr. Crissinger's predecessor...
...Presbyterian Church of the U. S. suspends its members when they disappear, when no trace of them is found for many years. Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the General Assembly, announced last week that the church had put the names of 67,060 of its members on the suspended list last year. In spite of this, the number of communicants enrolled was the largest the church has known, the donations per person the most generous yet recorded...
...weeks still pended before Seymour W. Lowman, onetime Lieutenant Governor of New York, was to replace Brigadier General Lincoln C. Andrews, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in Charge of Prohibition Enforcement. But Assistant Secretary Andrews was away from his office on a vacation and would not be back before Aug. 1, the transition date, except "to clean up his affairs." Assistant Secretary Lowman was already and practically in charge. The new Commissioner of Prohibition, Dr. James M. Doran, was also ready to function. So last week seemed propitious for calling the district prohibition administrators to Washington for conference...