Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...succeeded in the law, switched to and succeeded in public utilities, switched to and dazzled the oldsters in politics (he managed McKinley's Illinois campaign for Mark Hanna), switched to banking and excelled at that (U. S. Comptroller of Currency, 1897-1902; founder and head of the Central Union Trust Co.; urged by Andrew Mellon in 1920 for Secretary of the Treasury). He did the War purchasing for his boyhood friend, General Pershing; then straightened out the Federal Budget system; then devised the plan for Germany's reparations and shared (with Sir Austen Chamberlain) a Nobel Peace Prize...
Lawrence Trever Grimm '29, of Los Angeles, Cal., has been elected vice-president of the Harvard Union for the coming academic year. In the recent postal-card balloting Grimm received 298 votes, while K. D. Robinson '29 and H. F. Schwarz '29, other nominees for the position, received 220 and 73 votes respectively...
...vice-president of the Union Grimm will act as the undergraduate representative on the Governing Board, and will preside at all functions of the undergraduate body held under the auspices of the Union. In this capacity he succeeds H. W. Bragdon...
...planned that next year only two undergraduates will sit on the Governing Board, the undergraduate vice-president and the chairman of the Debating Union. Grimm holds the latter office this year and, with the advice and consent of the Governing Board, will appoint his successor next fall...
...voting is concerned, not even one citizen of the Soviet Union can vote otherwise than for candidates who are members of the Communist Party; because no other candidates are permitted to stand for election...