Word: swains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to the Mahatma's platonic harem. She speaks Indo-Aryan and other Oriental languages, recently made a novel of her own eventful life. Her father was the late George Cram ("Jig") Cook, author, playwright, onetime director of the Provincetown Players, who, successively the husband of Sara Herndon Swain, Mollie A. Price, Playwright Susan Glaspell (Allison's House), adopted Greece as his country and died there seven years...
...request of the President of the United States, and in recognition of the outstanding importance to the nation of the continuation to effective completion of the services of Dr. Wilbur as Secretary of the Interior, his leave be extended to and including Dec. 31, 1932." Dr. Robert Eckles Swain will continue as acting president; Dr. Wilbur will continue to draw no salary. Opponents of the plan to abolish Stanford's lower division (TIME, June 8) took comfort in reflecting that while Dr. Wilbur is absent the plan will not be consummated...
Three changes have been made in the personnel of the assistant deans of Harvard College, it was announced yesterday at University Hall. Douglas Swain Byers '25, assistant dean in charge of Records is resigning to become assistant to the director of the Peabody Museum. Dean Byers's place in the Records office will be filled by Albert Edward Hind-marsh, assistant dean of Freshmen, and Wilbur Joseph Bender '27 will succeed Dean Hindmarsh...
Trustees Meeting. Potent Californians are the trustees who meet this week to decide the question which has heated up many a Stanford alumnus: Shall Dr. Wilbur continue to administer the university from Washington, or shall complete control be given to Acting President Robert Eckles Swain? Among the trustees are: Banker Leland Whitman Cutler, of Bacon, Cutler & Cooke in San Francisco; Sugar Merchant Wallace McKinney Alexander, past president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce; Board Chairman Frank Bartow Anderson of the Bank of California; Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times; Judges John Thomas Nourse Jr. and Marcus Cauffman...
President, Frederick Winsor '93, headmaster of Middlesex School, Concord, Mass; vice-president, Z. E. Scott, Superintendent of Schools, Springfield; secretary-treasurer, Charles Swain Thomas '97, associate professor of Education; auditor, D. T. Pottinger '06, of the Harvard University Press...