Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt filled the Federal Reserve Board with the appointments of John Jacob Thomas, Nebraska farmer-lawyer, and Menc S. Szymczak, Comptroller of Chicago, good friend of the late martyred Mayor Tony Cermak. Other Presidential nominations: Maryland's William Stanley to be Assistant to the Attorney General; Utah's Harold M. Stephen, Florida's Frank J. Wideman to be Assistant Attorneys General; Tennessee's John Harcourt Alexander Morgan* and Wisconsin's David E. Lilienthal to be Tennessee Valley Authority directors; Pennsylvania's Carroll Miller, brother-in-law of Demo-cratic Boss "Joe" Guffey...
This last was as definite as the Chancellor would be on the question that all Britain knew had split the Cabinet wide open: to pay or not to pay the installment of $75,950,000 due the U. S. three days after the W. E. C. opens. Stanley Baldwin was leading one faction, for immediate payment. Neville Chamberlain was leading the faction for default, secure in the knowledge that President Roosevelt's suspension of the gold clause in U. S. bonds had shocked thousands of Britons...
...benefactions. Their choices also reflect political changes and emergences of new public characters. Among the leading degree-getters of a year ago, with three degrees each, were Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, new Supreme Court Justice, and Stanley King, new president of Amherst College. The Republican administration was represented by Secretaries Mills. Adams and Wilbur, Vice President Curtis. Mrs. Hoover (two degrees) and President Hoover who in absentia got one more for his collection...
President Stanley King of Amherst College LL.D...
Tall, well set up, "Jack" Fuess went to Amherst where he roomed for a year with Bruce Barton and knew its present President Stanley King. He married an Andover girl. Elizabeth Gushing Goodhue (no kin to Grace Goodhue Coolidge), has a son, John Gushing Fuess, who will be Harvard's baseball manager in 1935. The Fuesses live in what they call "the ugliest house in the world," a drab, gingerbready place on Hidden Road in Andover. "Jack" Fuess plays good contract bridge, good golf. When he dubs he remembers his German ancestry and cries: "Drei hundert tausend donnerwetters...