Word: suzzallo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hill above the black water of Seattle's Lake Washington, gyrating torchlights shed their glow upon the heads and shoulders of hundreds of young men and women, undergraduates of the University of Washington. They were vigorously and visibly protesting against the enforced resignation of President Henry Suzzallo, who, the young men and women told each other, was being dismissed without a hearing from Washington by Governor Roland H. Hartley (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). As Wartime wage umpire of the National Labor Board, President Suzzallo had sponsored the eight-hour day for lumbermen, a policy irksome to timber-owning Governor...
President Suzzallo, who has been a Carnegie Trustee since 1919, was once (1926) board chairman. He will still have the benefit of President Emeritus Pritchett's experience when he takes office in August. In addition to the Carnegie presidency, Dr. Suzzallo has other important chores which will keep him occupied for some time to come. He has not yet finished his work of coordinating the educational activities of the Government as director of President Hoover's advisory Committee on Education for which he temporarily dropped a study of U. S. graduate schools for the Carnegie Foundation...