Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard debaters, Frederick DeW. Bolman, Jr. '35, and A. Gilman Sullivan '36, will maintain that as such an alli- ance could have no moral effect for peace, it would be impractical and disregarded, which would in itself contain seeds for future...
...Gordon Murray, president of the Oxford Union Society, who will speak from 3.02 until 3.08 o'clock. Introduced at 3.08, Bolman speaks from 3.09 until 3.15 o'clock. Then K. R. F. Steele-Maitland, ex-president of the Oxford Union Society, will follow Bolman until 3.22 o'clock, when Sullivan is presented. The whole debate will thus last slightly loss than half an hour...
Debating last night on the subject "Resolved that New England should secede from the Union," the affirmative, represented by Richard W. Sullivan '38 and John L. Calvocoressi '38, was awarded the decision by a vote of 36 to 18 over the negative, represented by Francis Keppel '38 and J. W. Kaufman '38. This was the first of a series of bi-weekly debates sponsored by the newly formed Union Society...
...Sullivan, the first speaker for the affirmative, argued that New England pays considerable taxes and gets nothing in return. Keppel, stressing Professor Merriman's concept of unity, emphasized that the United States is held together by a common language and common cultural aims and stated that New England by itself would not have adequate defense. Calvocoressi then declared that New England is culturally distinct from the rest of the country and called the Middle West a parasite fattening itself from New England. Kaufman, the last speaker, begged the audience to pity New England if she secedes, since she cannot...
Merchant Reyburn got his start hawking on the platform of an Arkansas railroad junction. Once he sold eight boxes of strawberries to the late great John L. Sullivan. When he wanted to learn law, young Reyburn persuaded the University of Arkansas to hold its lectures at night. At 27 he took hold of a small private banking & real estate firm, expanding it into Little Rock's big Union Trust Co. Few years ago Mr. Reyburn resigned from Lord & Taylor's presidency to devote more time to his job as head of the parent company, $40,000,000 Associated...