Word: winthrope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoped that some of the trees in front of Eliot House and those in the Winthrop House quadrangle could be salvaged, but there the roots are very badly torn and broken...
Eliot House, Winthrop House, and the Yard were the worst hit as far as loss of trees goes. Nine of the stately elms outside of Eliot House along Memorial Drive were prostrated, leaving a comparatively bare building. Over half of the poplars in the front circle were blown done. A scene of wreckage was the court between Gore and Standish Halls of Winthrop House, where all but three of the old willows went down. Fifteen trees in the Yard were uprooted or snapped off near the roots...
Energetic Yaleman Turck last month officially announced the formation of Holland House, with such potent directors as Chase National's Winthrop Aldrich, International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson, Standard Oil of New Jersey's W. S. Farish, Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon...
Some genealogists claim that Rochefeuille or Rocquefeuille was the original name of the oil clan Rockefeller. Last week, a Dr. Yoss, archivist from the Rhineland, announced from Berlin that the Rockefeller ancestors were originally called Rockenfeller. Commented John D.'s 26-year-old grandson Winthrop: "interesting...
...Winthrop Rockefeller, 26, fourth son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., was initiated last week into the Circus Saints & Sinners Club, (which is devoted to the care of retired circus performers), forced to wear costumes depicting the life of a Rockefeller from babyhood to old age. Announcer Tex O'Rourke, master of ceremonies, supplied a running commentary: "He worked hard and long in the Texas oilfields until, at the end of one week, he rose to vice president. After attaining this position, he took a year's vacation...