Word: sibley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heroes of Antioch are the students who do not rely on the college to find them jobs but go out and get their own. Early last month Undergraduate Anne Sibley climbed into a bus, started East. Since self-sufficient Undergraduate Sibley refrained from telling her Chicago parents where she was going, the Eastern Press was soon conducting a search. Last week the search ended on a barker's platform outside a Coney Island freak show. Undergraduate Sibley's job was to stand dumbly but alluringly beside the freaks while the barker was spieling. She worked from noon...
...gold standard; how to avoid returning to the gold standard. James David Mooney, General Motors' famed vice president in charge of exports, gave a few quick and cogent suggestions for reviving world trade, without attracting serious attention. After presiding at one session of the conference President Harper Sibley of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce politely surmised: "If all economists were laid end to end, they would reach no conclusion...
Although experimenting with several new lineups during the week, Coach Hodder will start the team which has seen most action during the season, composed of Lyn Lardner, Mansfield Branigan, Bob Hunter, Ed Sibley, George Enos, and Charlie Bellows...
...Constructive criticism does not necessarily imply opposition to the President's program," explained Mr. Sibley last week. "There is no reason why we have to follow the wishes of the President. I will seek conferences with the President with a view to co-operative effort toward recovery, and I hope to do so in a friendly spirit-but on the basis of a clear difference of opinion...
...Chamber had differed too much for Harper Sibley's "friendly spirit" to impress the White House. By one swift maneuver President Roosevelt stripped the Chamber of its right to speak for U. S. Business. Before the Chambermen had time to pack their grips, safely seated in the Executive Offices was another body of businessmen, pledging almost unqualified support to the New Deal. That body was the Department of Commerce's Business Advisory & Planning Council, which has lately emerged as one of the most potent business lobbies in Washington. Composed of much bigger business wigs than the rank & file...