Word: wilber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rector Mook declined to let his salary be cut from $4,000 to $2,400 or to cancel $1,000 the church owed him in arrears. The vestry asked him to resign. When he declined, a vestry committee went to the bishop. Three weeks ago Bishop Huston, whose son Wilber was the first ''prodigy" given a Thomas A. Edison college scholarship (TIME, Aug. 14, 1929), removed Rector Mook and appointed a successor...
...meteors, radio waves go askew. The meteors ionize and rustle the Kennelly-Heaviside layer, radio's sounding board around the earth. -Dr. A. Meldon Skellet, Bell Telephone Laboratories. Electric Clocks, run by 60-cycles-per-second powerhouse current, are sufficiently accurate to operate astronomical telescopes. Dr. George Wilber Moffitt is using such a clock at Yerkes Observatory. Dr. Heber Doust Curtis will put one in at the Michigan Observatory...
...Governor has to make many a speech. At Ann Arbor, last week. Governor Wilber Marion Brucker of Michigan made a speech. Afterward, a Governor is supposed to shake the hands of as many of his audience as desire it. Stewart H. Redner, University of Michigan law student, was one of those who wished to have Governor Brucker shake his hand. A Governor is supposed to have something pleasant to say to those who want their hands shaken. When Student Redner said: "I killed my grandmother today," Governor Brucker smiled cordially, replied: "I'm very glad to make your acquaintance...
...Wilber Andrew Cochel, managing editor of the Weekly Kansas City Star . . . LL.D...
...Wilber Huston, winner of the 1929 Edison scholarship, sophomore at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was twice captured by freshmen, twice escaped during annual interclass roughhousing...