Word: snyders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury. To succeed him in the Treasury, the President nominated the man who had twice before come in behind Vinson as he moved upward-Reconversion Boss John Wesley Snyder, a virtual unknown until Harry Truman moved to the White House. John Snyder and Harry Truman were buddies in World War I. They are the closest of cronies now. Perhaps that fact alone was enough for the President to pick him for the second "highest Cabinet post (and second in succession to the presidency...
...President's advisers pulled few punches in telling him that upping John Snyder would not be good politics...
...Glauber (Physics), James Newton Snyder (Physics...
...Macfadden's now defunct Graphic, was the ribald historian of the flapper-speakeasy-whoopee '20s. They competed in a pell-mell rush to give Manhattan gum-chewers the lowdown on Fatty Arbuckle, Peaches Browning, Arnold Rothstein, Kip Rhinelander. The grisliest news-picture of the era-Murderess Ruth Snyder in Sing Sing's electric chair-was run by Patterson's personal order...
...long run, says Snyder, U.S. colleges must decide where to stop in handing out college educations. "We cannot afford the mistake ... of training too many for the professions and too few for other . . . functions in the economy. . . . We should thus give close attention ... to the possibility of developing a new intermediate group of technical institutes." Shorter than the four-year standard colleges, they would offer certificates instead of A.B.s and B.S.s...