Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Smith's Neilson journeyed from his Northampton, Mass. campus to nearby Springfield, to be the guest of honor at a City Club dinner celebrating his 20th anniversary as president of the largest resident college for women in the U. S. In the gathering of 400 Neilson admirers there were 18 college presidents and a liberal sprinkling of deans and professors. But there was very little solemnity...
Edwin Seymour Smith, 45, no kin to Donald Wakefield, has an even more extensive Labor background. After Harvard and a stretch of reporting for the Springfield Republican and Hartford Times, he became employment manager of Boston's famed Filene Department Store and personal assistant to Board Chairman Abraham Lincoln Filene. In 1931 he was appointed Massachusetts' Commissioner of Labor & Industries, left that job to join the old NRA Labor Board. Ruddy-faced, blue-eyed, a snappy dresser given to loud neckties, he reads omnivorously, has written several economic treatises, relaxes week ends on his farm in Loudoun County...
Wilbur F. Murra, of Cambridge, instructor in Education; Gerard R. Pomerat 1G, of West Springfield, Austin Teaching Fellow in Biology; John G. B. Castor 2G, of Albany, New York, David L. McVickar 2G, of Combridge, Bradford B. Owen 1G, of Berea, Ohio, Robert C. Stauffer 1G, of Minneapolis, assistants in Biology...
...plump, soft-voiced young woman of 25, sat tensely blowing smoke at a mystery thriller in her suite in Manhattan's swank St. Regis Hotel one day last week. Born in dingy Panama, Ill., she had grown up as the daughter of a rising young union official in Springfield. By the time she was ready, her still rising father had been able to send her to the Kirk School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., then on to Bryn Mawr College. But college seemed dull after living with her dynamic father and his problems; after two years she quit...
Chief opponents of the move, who voiced their opinion in a brief debate, were Ralph Clampit of Springfield, House Chairman of the Legislative Committee on Education, and Republican floor leader Christian Herter...