Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major Lester Draper ("Bing") Seymour is the man E. L. Cord wanted in place of La Motte Cohu last spring. At that time Cord was not strong enough to have Seymour elected. But he did succeed in having President Cohu's undated resignation placed in care of Avco Board Chairman William Averell Harriman, just in case. For several weeks matters went smoothly, and one day - the story goes - when Cord, Cohu & Harriman were riding in a taxicab, Cord asked Banker Harriman for the resignation, tore it up. When hostilities reopened, he bitterly regretted his impulse...
...defeated G. P. Webber '33, (L) 3-2; C. P. Webber '33, (L) defeated F. W. Fox '33, (K) 3-2; L. D. Dawes '35, (L) defeated A. H. Bryan '35, (K) 3-1; T. W. Thorndike, Jr. '35, (L) defeated A. R. Benner '35 (K), 3-1; Malcolm Seymour '35, (L) defeated Clifford Mannal...
Young Lawyer Horatio Seymour Rubens, who in 1893 had a smooth, fat face, a wispy mustache and a confident manner for his 24 years, had not been merely a footballer at C. C. N. Y. He had also made friends with a Cuban classmate, one Gonzalo de Quesada. When Quesada introduced him to Jose Julian Marti, known as "the Master" to U. S.-exiled Cuban revolutionaries, young Rubens caught fire from Marti's fervor, swore he would get in there and fight for Cuban independence. This book is the disarmingly partisan record of how Cuba finally got quit of Spain...
...most costly to run ($310,777,000). It holds the economic heart of the nation. Its citizens pay one-third of the total Federal income tax. Three of its 44 Governors?Van Buren, Cleveland, Roosevelt?have proceeded to the nation's No. 1 job. Four others?Seymour, Tilden, Hughes, Smith?ran for the Presidency...
...exhorting members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to labor for eugenic sterilization greeted them when they assembled at Syracuse University last week for their midsummer meeting. Distributors of the leaflets were agents of the Human Betterment Foundation, a California organization created and financed by Ezra Seymour Gosney, a Pasadena banker. Founder Gosney, 76, is president: his two daughters and their husbands are trustees. Other trustees are Banker Henry Mauris Robinson, close friend of Herbert Hoover, and Biologist Paul ("Population") Popenoe...