Word: tuckered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speakers at the meeting will include Joseph A. Erickson, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Frank L. Tucker, treasurer of the General Radio Company; and James H. White '21, a partner of the brokerage firm of Scudder, Stevens, and Clark...
Elizabeth Tucker '52 of Barnard Hall and West Hartford, Connecticut: major--Economics; Student Council representative; Choral Society; Athletic Association; French Club; NSA publicity director...
Finance. When stockholders brought a bankruptcy suit against the Tucker Corp., President Preston Tucker won 60 days to produce financial backing from an unnamed "angel." Last week Tucker reported that the backer had backed out. But, he said, five others-including "an Eastern syndicate, a West Coast syndicate, two big companies and an internationally known banker"-were interested. Chicago's Federal Judge Michael L. Igoe said he didn't "have the least bit of confidence in [Tucker's] statements," but he gave him until March 3 to put up the cash or close down his shop...
...pronouncement split Olivet right in two. The anti-Ashby faction found powerful leaders on the faculty. Among them were Economist Tucker P. Smith, head of the Olivet Teachers' Union and the 1948 Socialist candidate for Vice President, and Pacifist Carleton Mabee, of the history department, winner in 1944 of the Pulitzer Prize for biography (The American Leonardo). Student intellectuals lined up behind Smith as a Student Action Committee. "The S.A.C.'s," jeered Ashbyite Clark Balch, a 30-year-old senior and football tackle, "are the kind of people who like art and music and stay up till...
Sophie ("Last of the Red-Hot Mamas") Tucker admitted to being a landmark. To the New York Public Library she presented all the personal theatrical scrapbooks of her 43 years of trouping (more than 200 of them, in three trunks and a wicker hamper). They would be filed in the reference rooms as the library's "most comprehensive collection of material on vaudeville and cabaret entertainment...