Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curly-haired Senator Allen Joseph Ellender, henchman of the late Huey Long and his successor in Washington. Allen Ellender lacks the Kingfish's political potency and likewise his flair for publicity. But last year he struck a workable vein of publicity when he agitated for a special Senate committee to investigate injustices in Civil Service promotions. He got his committee and $2,500 to finance it. Last week his hearings made headlines in capital dailies. His theme: Why pretty girls get ahead of homely ones as Government workers, with examples in the flesh...
...After 21 years in the Commerce, Treasury and Justice Departments, Bertha Lonergan, salary now $1,620 a year in the Department of Justice: "We old warhorses" are passed over for younger, prettier girls such as Miss Margaret Stanley (a niece of Special Assistant Attorney General William Stanley) with no Civil Service rating and only two years' experience, who now is paid the same as War Horse Lonergan...
Most of the official party, with members of the Harvard Club of Boston, will leave here on a special car on Wednesday noon for Chicago. New Yorkers will join the group in Albany, and other alumni will join the train en route to Chicago...
Other groups from St. Louis and Indianapolis will join the special Harvard train which leaves Chicago Thursday noon and arrives in New Orleans Friday morning...
...will of William F. Milton '58, the Milton Fund for Research gives grants of varying amounts each year to different instructors and administrators to pay for special research. Work financed by this year's grants cover such widely differing subjects as preparation for a "History of the Voyages of Columbus" and experimental studies with insulin and metrozol used in the treatment of dementia praecox...