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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last summer this old fortress of personal good works turned with the times as its directors chose to succeed Founder Addams as head-resident an efficient, practised public charitarian. She was Charlotte Carr, executive director of New York City's Emergency Relief Bureau. A tall, hefty, genial spinster who studied at Vassar before the War, Miss Carr left her job as employment manager of Knox Hat Co. in 1923 and soon became acting director of the New York Labor Department's Division of Women in Industry under Frances Perkins. After that she served as director of Pennsylvania...
James Phinney Baxter, former master of Adams House and professor of American Diplomatic History here, will succeed Dr. Dennett as President of Williams, also on the same day. He was appointed to be President in the middle of the summer...
Events like these last week by no means astounded New Jersey whose politics has a strong savor of its own. They were in fact the normal accompaniment of a primary election in which the major issue was to choose gubernatorial candidates to succeed Republican Governor Harold Giles Hoffman whose political star has been waning. In the Democratic primary Arthur Harry Moore, up for a third term as Governor after time out to be elected to the U. S. Senate (1935-41), was unopposed. A party split made the Republican race more exciting. Backed by Governor Hoffman's once powerful...
...anticipated fortnight ago when tense young James McCauley Landis retired from the chairmanship of the Securities & Exchange Commission to become Dean of the Harvard Law School, tense young SECommissioner William Orville ("Bill") Douglas was last week elected to succeed him. Like his predecessor, a missionary's son, Bill Douglas was born in Minnesota 38 years ago, grew up in Yakima, Wash., since 1932 has been Sterling Professor of Law at Yale. On leave from that top-notch teaching berth since 1934 to assist the SEC, he has been a commissioner since January 1936. Upon his election to chairman...
...personnel changes, Mr. Fradd mentioned the appointment of George Hawley to succeed the late Frank Munroe at the front desk position...