Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stewart, president of the Yale Student Council, praised the cheerful relations between faculty and students which had resulted from the system including intramural sports...
Died. Mrs. Lucy ("Aunt Lucy") Stewart Knox, 93, grandmother of Cinemactress Anita Stewart; in Brooklyn, N. Y. A friend of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, she hid him lin her Brooklyn house in 1875 after he had been found guilty of colossal thieveries from the New York municipal government and sentenced to twelve years imprisonment. By her aid he eluded vigilant watchers, escaped to Cuba on his yacht...
Wilbur's Switch? To reach its decision, the Senators took much testimony. Robert Giffen Stewart, president of Standard Oil of Indiana's big subsidiary, Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. was dead against any tariff, as well he might be since his company is one of the biggest importers of gasoline. Senator Tydings of Maryland was also opposed. He said a tariff would cost the U. S. people "at least $980,000,000 a year." Senator Tydings probably also had in mind the fact that when an experimental shipment of Soviet oil was lately made to the U. S. it arrived...
...following are the visiting Yale men: J. R. Stewart, president of the Yale Student Council; W. P. Lydgate, Alfred Ogden, and B. H. Grant, respectively the retiring chairman, the present chairman, and next year's chairman of the "Yale Daily News"; F. W. Loeser, captain of the Yale water polo team and for three years center of the university football team; J. H. Holbrook, manager of the football team; and R. M. Ferris, Sheffield Scientific School...
...testimony of Mr. Stewart is justified, the action of the United States can hardly be a result of international altruism. It is perhaps more probable that the embargo arises from a desire to eliminate business competition, especially after the alarms caused by the dumping of Soviet goods throughout the globe. Using the same pretence the Government has considered spreading the restriction to handling by convict labor. Whatever the true motive behind the embargo, the treasury is safe in placing an embargo, for as long as Washington refuses to recognize Russia, any authorized Investigators will be barred from making a study...