Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover, looking worn and worried, summoned Secretaries Stimson of State, Hurley of War and Adams of the Navy for a White House Council. With them hurried General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Chief of Naval Operations, and William Richards Castle Jr., Undersecretary of State. Dr. Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck, chief of the State Department's Far Eastern Division, brought along maps of China, laid them out in the Lincoln Study. The President and his advisers hunched over them, talked in low voices. Before President Hoover was a request from U. S. Consul General Edwin Sheddan Cunningham...
...Austrian, 61, Chicago lawyer; of a gastric ailment; in Chicago. Learned, eloquent, he had successfully represented Armour & Co. in defense of its acquisition of Morris & Co. which the U. S. Government contended was a violation of the Clayton Anti-trust Act. Among his other clients were Lumberman James Stanley Joyce (divorced by Peggy); the late William Wrigley Jr.'; Erlanger theatre interests; White Sox baseball club; the Chicago Tribune...
Resigning. Dr. Arthur Stanley Pease, A. B., M. A., Ph. D. (Harvard), famed classicist; as president of Amherst College; to become professor of Latin & Greek at Harvard. An earnest, retiring pundit, Dr. Pease is little known to his students. He facially resembles Amherst's Trustee Calvin Coolidge, who is spoken of (without much reason) as his successor...
...Arthur Stanley Pease has resigned the Presidency of Amherst College to accept the position of Professor of Greek and Latin in Harvard University. From 1924 to 1927, President Pease served as Professor of Latin at Amherst. Since that time he has held in addition to the presidency the title of Moore Professor of Latin, without giving formal courses. He has chosen to resume the teaching office, in preference to the duties of administrator...
...Katharine Dexter McCormick, whose husband, Stanley McCormick, was 25 years ago declared incompetent, a Chicago court awarded an allowance of $25,000 a month for 1932, the same amount which Mrs. McCormick received last year. Informed that Mr. McCormick is now recovered enough to manage his own establishment near Santa Barbara, court directed an administrator of the estate to visit Mr. McCormick, determine whether he needs a proposed new $400,000 dwelling to be called "Stone House...