Word: winthrope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Annual elections to the Winthrop House Committee will be held early next week, it was announced by the House Committee last night. Two Juniors and one Sophomore will be elected, the whole house voting on the list of nominees drawn up by the present members of the committee. Juniors nominated were Arthur Oakes, Eugene Emerson, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., John W. Erhad, Albert M. Harlow, Charles L. Moore, Theodore P. Robie, and A. William Asmuth. Sophomores nominated were Jonathon G. Butler, Robert M. Bunker, Francis A. Harding, Jr., Robert M. Burnett, and Benjamin A. Smith. Following the elections Dr. Ronald...
...Winthrop House squash tournament will be started next week under a new plan drawn up by the House Committee last night. There will be a permanent cup which will be up for competition each year, in addition to single cups awarded to the winner each year for his permanent possession...
...scene was Winthrop House; the time was dinner; the chief character a cockroach. According to our informant he was a well fed and healthy-looking specimen, as yet unimpaired by his diet. When first observed he was ambling steadily across the tiled floor. One of the House scientists spotted him, gathered him up and inverted a glass over him in the center of the table, with the apparant intention of studying his life habits...
...Winthrop Aldrich Rockefeller, fourth of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s five sons, is always going somewhere, usually in a hurry. Vacationing from Yale in 1933, he worked for the Rockefellers' Humble Oil and Refining Co. in Texas until a kidnap scare caused him to scuttle for Manhattan in an airplane with a bodyguard. That autumn a Connecticut motorcycle police-man caught him doing 64 m.p.h. on the Boston Post Road. He said he was trying to get a friend to a boat, was fined $27. Early in 1934, because his marks were poor, young Winthrop left Yale...
Last week in Houston, Winthrop Rockefeller, now 24, said he had finished his Humble apprenticeship of nearly three years, was ready for new work, probably in California. Said he: "I got a certain satisfaction out of physical labor, but my aspirations are slightly higher. It does not look like efficiency to have a man of my height [6 ft. 3½ in.] wielding a short-handled shovel." At home and abroad, young Mr. Rockefeller's business last week displayed these proofs of prosperity: ¶ U. S. oil production set a new all-time high with an average daily flow...