Word: watertown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jaakko Mikkola's harriers will receive their first time-trial of the season today, when Woodard, Channing, Pier, Roys, Schou, and Walker, the first six Harvard men to cross the line against Holy Cross, follow the cinder track to the Watertown Bridge and back, in order to determine the strength of the team which is to meet New Hampshire a week from tomorrow...
Reading the diary of John Leverett, the first lay president, we learned that the tutors, or professors, were the Fellows of the college while the ministers of Watertown, Boston, Cambridge, Char- lestown, Dorchester, and Roxbury together with the members of the Governor's Council formed the Board of Overseers--hence their present day title of Honorable and Reverend Gentlemen...
Announcing the addition of a new department, the Phillips Brooks House yesterday made public its plans for cooperating with the Perkins Institute of Watertown. A new branch of the Social Service, Committee will be formed, subsidiary to the larger committee, but conducting its work independently...
...independent armament firm is the Ancients Establishments Hotchkiss et Cie, founded by Banjamin Berkelyey Hotchkiss, American engineer and inventor of the Hotchkiss Machine Gun, born in Watertown, Connecticut, in 1826. British, French, and American capital are intermingled in the company now, but the managing director is a self-expatriated ex-ensign of the U. S. Navy. Lawrence Vincent Benet, uncle of Stephen Vincent Benet, the poet. His American citizenship did not stop him from selling tons of guns and other war materials to Japan at the same time that Secretary of Siate Stimson was vainly trying to keep the Japanese...
...Schneider-Creusot. Its distinctions are two: 1) it is independent of Schneider-Creusot which owns or controls 412 arms and allied enterprises including Czechoslovakia's Skoda. 2) Though a French firm, its founder like its present managing director was a U. S. citizen, Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss, born in Watertown, Conn. in 1826, made a fortune manufacturing guns and munitions for the North during the Civil War. He went to Europe in 1867, established a cartridge factory in the south of France. His capital increased by profits from the Franco-Prussian War, he moved to Paris...