Word: surveyors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forgotten a hard-muscled youth who came down from Alaska with shaggy black hair, shy grey eyes, a fighter's chin, a wolfskin coat, a rich baritone voice and much musical talent. Robert M. ("Bob") Crawford entered Princeton with a little money he had earned as a surveyor in Alaska. He worked his way in a bicycle shop and a Ford service station. He led the University Orchestra. He became president of the Glee Club. He composed for and sang in the Triangle Club's shows, including The Scarlet Coat which he wrote out of his fondness...
...plane, sail up from Seattle to Seward, Alaska, then fly to Fairbanks for the first concert on Sept. 17. There would be caribou and moose hunting, mountain-climbing, sight seeing, then concerts in Seward, Juneau, Seattle, possibly in Vancouver, Victoria and elsewhere. Because Bob Crawford was once a surveyor for it, the Alaska Railroad agreed to sponsor his trip. Alaska's Governor George Parks sent words of encouragement and enthusiasm...
...function was at first simply to hold yearly meetings at which Christian education and the problems of the liberal college were discussed. But the colleges needed more than that. In 1929 the A. A. C. expanded its services, doubled its fee to $50 a year, hired as associate secretary, surveyor and researcher tall, broad-shouldered Archie Maclnness Palmer, 36, author of the merger recommendation which is to appear in the November bulletin. Busy Secretary Palmer, onetime secretary and acting dean of Cornell University, onetime sales researcher for Procter & Gamble Co.. onetime alumni secretary at Columbia University, is currently preparing...
...coastwise trade, ten years later went into steam. After the turn of the century he became prominent in both banking and shipping, lived quietly, reinvested his increasing fortune. He was raised to the peerage in 1919 after he became Minister of Munitions. During the War he was Surveyor General of Supplies, directed the expenditure of over $2,400,000,000. His close friendship with Sir Thomas began in 1927 when he became chairman of Marconi Co. and a director of Lloyd's Bank. In his will Sir Thomas appointed him one of six trustees of his estate, estimated...
...artist is Thomas Hart Benton. Artist Benton was born in Neosho, Mo., on the edge of the Ozarks, a great-nephew of Andrew Jackson's trusted Senator Thomas Hart Benton, son of Congressman Maecenas Eason Benton. At 17, Maecenas' son was carrying a chain as a surveyor's assistant in Joplin. Shortly thereafter he began a long, arduous, uninteresting art apprenticeship as a newspaper cartoonist, then as an art student in Chicago, Paris, New York, where he kept himself alive painting scenery for the old haphazard cinema studios of Fort Lee, N. J. Six months...