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...more than 50 treaties bettering worldwide working conditions, proved last week that not all diplomatic wangling is confined to its parent, the League of Nations. To succeed resigning Director Harold Beresford Butler of Great Britain, U. S. Delegate Robert Watt proposed his fellow countryman, social-minded, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant. British Delegate Joseph Hallsworth wanted Assistant Director E. J. Phelan of Eire elected. Delegate Hallsworth accused the U. S. of applying diplomatic pressure for Mr. Winant. Pointed answer of Delegate Watt: Compared to Britons, Americans are "diplomatic novices...
Reported backing lanky, softspoken, 49-year-old Candidate Winant was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Three times Republican Governor of New Hampshire, twice an assistant I. L. 0. director, Mr. Winant was appointed first chairman of the Social Security Board by Mr. Roosevelt. Later he resigned to defend the Social Security Act against Republican Candidate Alfred M. Landon's thrusts, actively campaigned for Democrat Roosevelt. Since August he has been at Geneva...
Other members of the Economics' Visiting Committee, beside Lippmann and Whitney, are Winthrop W. Aldrich '07, Albert F. Bigelow '03, Roger S. Baldwin, Barklie Henry, Christian A. Herter '15, Alvin S. Johnson, Joseph P. Kennedy '12, George O. May, Charles M. Storey '12, John G. Winant, and Orrin G. Wood...
...Special Racket Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey (Tufts and the University of Michigan), new President Frederick Harold Stinchfield of the American Bar Association (Bowdoin and Bates), retiring President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke (Bucknell and Columbia), RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones (Temple and New York University), John Gilbert Winant, onetime chairman of the Social Security Board (Oberlin and Knox). G-Man John Edgar Hoover accepted an Sc.D. from Kalamazoo College and an LL.D. from Westminster College (Fulton...
...annual literary exercises of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will be on Friday. The exercises, which are open to the public, will begin at 11:30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. John G. Winant, former Chairman of the Social Security Board and former Governor of New Hampshire, will be the Orator; and Daniel Sargent '13, Instructor and Tutor in History and Literature, will be the Poet. Samuel Williston, Dane Professor of Law at Harvard and President of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, will preside...