Word: woodburn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife arrives at Reno for a divorce generally under instructions from her personal attorney at home who refers her to his "correspondent" in the city. Reno's biggest law firm: (William) Woodburn & (George B.) Thatcher. Residence is immediately established in a housekeeping apartment or at the smart comfortable Riverside Hotel. Excessively exclusive folk go to the TH dude ranch 30 miles away, or to Mounte Crese ranch 18 miles away. Loneliness soon vanishes in the colony's common purpose. Di versions are plentiful. Fashionable gam bling, dancing, drinking are wide-open. Such roadhouses as the Willows...
...University of North Carolina's trustees, last week, took four ballots to elect Frank Porter Graham, faculty member since 1914, to succeed Henry Woodburn Chase, new president of the University of Illinois (TIME, March 3). A famed North Carolina Liberal, history-teaching President Graham was chosen through the influence of younger alumni although he insisted he did not want the office...
...list of noteworthy Illini included in your account of Harry Woodburn Chase's election as president of the University of Illinois is excellent but by no means complete. Here are some others...
Last week, tall, thin-thatched, efficient, good-natured President Harry Woodburn Chase of the University of North Carolina sat in his office at Chapel Hill and pondered. He was not thinking about the university of which he has been the chief executive for ten years, but of a vast educational plant 650 miles away of which he had just accepted the presidency?the University of Illinois...
Elected. Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase, 46, president of the University of North Carolina; to be president of the University of Illinois; at Urbana...