Word: wesley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumors and counter-rumors originated with a letter by Wesley A. Dunn '45, published in the current Alumni Bulletin. Dunn wrote his family the details of the first post-war meeting of the Harvard Club of Japan held in November, and stated that Asano was to be arrested...
...they entered, both men were met by a uniformed doorman who took their coats and ushered them straight into the green-walled office of John Wesley Snyder, the ex-St. Louis banker who is President Truman's Director of Reconversion. The basic labor problem of reconversion had come to a head...
...excitement over the pen was not limited to Gimbel's counters. A month ago, Thurman Wesley Arnold, hiring out his trust-busting talents to Reynolds, had filed suit in Wilmington's Federal Court for $1,000,000 (treble damages) against Eversharp Inc. and Eberhard Faber Corp. on a familiar Arnold charge: violation of the antitrust laws. The two defendants, Arnold claimed, had tried to "prevent mass distribution" of the Reynolds pen until they could 1) get rid of their own obsolete stocks, and 2) produce a ballbearing pen of their own on the basis of patent rights acquired...
...towards the Academy old-school tie. They are older than prewar plebes, many more of them have come from colleges, many are enlisted men who have been with the fleet and wear campaign ribbons on their jumpers. In this year's plebe class is 18-year-old Negro Wesley Anthony Brown, who wrote grimly to Harlem's Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell: "I shall do my best to successfully complete the prescribed course. . . . In 100 years of service to the American people the Academy has not produced one Negro graduate." Midshipman Brown, not the first...
Special tutoring got him into Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 17, hard work won him his degree in three years instead of four. With the help of his father, he got a job as draftsman in the Hyatt Roller Bearing Co. at Harrison, NJ. John Wesley Hyatt, who had invented celluloid, was trying to make a go of a new bearing, with little success. When the company was about to go on the rocks, Sloan Sr. bought a controlling interest in it, put in his son to run it. For months, it was touch & go whether the company would continue...