Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last summer's "purge" laughed off undergraduate toastmaster Brook Lee's intimation that Tydings may well be presidential timber...
...speech by Prof. Kirtley Mather, Dean of the Harvard Summer School, and discussion of plans for next year will be featured at the first Annual Dinner of the Harvard Undergraduate Faculty at Phillips Brooks House tonight at 6:30 o'clock, which will be attended by the fifty undergraduate tutors and their tutees, members of the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet, and Dean Leighton. Mr. Mather's subject will be "The place of the Undergraduate Faculty in Democratic Education...
Then he met a broker named Drexel (now a fugitive) who got him into the stock market in a small way. In the summer of 1929 Drexel invited the Birds to a summer camp with no telephone. While they were there, Drexel told Bird's secretary that her employer wanted her to arrange a $10,000 loan from the bank. She used her power of attorney to obtain it and Drexel bought $100,000 worth of stock on margin in Bird's name. Before Bird could extricate himself, the crash had come and he was short...
...Aliquippa, Pa. when Mario Izzo died, Aliquippans took up a collection to move his body from potter's field, and buy him a tombstone. Reason: Last summer when oldster Izzo, an Italian immigrant, was put on relief, he looked at his first weekly check for $3.60, seized a broom and went out to sweep the streets six hours a day, six days a week, explaining: "I think this is a wonderful country. I decide I will be an honest man with this country. ... So I start to sweep. . . . My bread it tastes sweet and I feel like...
...popular of lecturers, he estimates "I'll probably average a talk a day over the next year." These include the ten or twelve sermons he will preach in Boston, New York and New Haven churches, the 13 he will preach in the Huron City Church near his Michigan summer home...