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...finishing, college president of the student body, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, he gave up graduate work to become an instructor at Yakima High School and support his family. After two years of saving he had $600. He resolved on an insurance selling venture, bungled it and lost all but $75. So he registered at Columbia Law School in Manhattan, expressed his trunk ahead, set out himself as "herder" for a shipment of sheep going to Chicago for slaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bill and Billy | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...betraying the fact that before the week was out he was to be the opposition's first big witness before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And there was another evening when Justice McReynolds attended, as he usually does, the annual banquet of his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta (see cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Big Debate | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...last week. The Justice gave a general discourse on good citizenship and the problems of government. In the course of it he referred to the fact that some attorneys complain, when they lose a case, that the Court has been unfair. Said he while an Associated Press Phi Delta Theta took notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Big Debate | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

Iowa born, John D. M. Hamilton prepared at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts. Charles P. Taft, Ohio-born, chief among Governor Landon's advisers, prepared at Taft school in Connecticut. Son of the 27th President of the United States, Charles Taft was initiated into Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi at Yale. He married the daughter of Ing Watch Company's president, fought for the United States a year in France, then earnestly fought for Y. M. C. A. and goal government in his native cinnati. Father of six children, Charles Taft will serve as a model for the figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...University of Kansas, Beta Theta Pi pledged Freshman Dan Hamilton, son of Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton. Junior Peggy Anne Landon (Pi Beta Phi) signed up for English, Psychology, three courses in Modern European History...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 28, 1936 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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