Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moonfaced, enthusiastic Dr. Stoddard, 41-year-old father of four, is director of Iowa's history-making Child Welfare Research Station and its 60 psychologists. At the conference last week, conducted by famed Ben D. Wood's Educational Records Bureau and several other groups, Dr. Stoddard reported not only his facts but his conclusions about how intelligence is created...
...raucously indefatigable practical joker (he once planted 100 pigeons in a friend's office), heavy-jowled, big-nosed Herbert got into banking in 1907 after making a small fortune in wood, paper and power mills. Subsequent huge profits in shipping, agriculture, oil, mining, hotels and cement won him great repute as a daring plunger. But some stockholders charged that his plunges were more profitable to Herbert than to them. (Last month the Maritime Commission listed him among those who milked the Dollar Line almost to extinction...
...last week's gathering was the proposed elimination of tax-exempt securities. After hearing Chief Counsel John Philip Wenchel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue expound the New Deal doctrine that tax exemption should be ended in order to pump stagnant savings into use, then hearing Banker David Wood rebut with the standard argument that taxing tax-exempts would violate State rights, the assembled investment bankers resolved in favor of eliminating tax exemption on future issues. But this was no New Deal yessing, for banishing of tax exemption would mean a better market for ordinary corporate bond issues...
...when Chicago humbled proud Princeton and shattered the Big Three football monopoly. Then great Chicago teams vied with great Harvard teams in crushing all foes. But now football glories for both lie mainly in recollection, except for spasms of life when a Jay Berwanger comes to Chicago, a Barry Wood or a Dick Harlow to Harvard...
...long end of 9-5 odds, at least so the bookies quote around Cambridge. In New York, however, odds of 9-4 have been given on Princeton. Baltimore is for Harvard, judging from the wire read to yesterday's rally from Harvard's all-time football ace, W. Barry Wood '31. "I saw Princeton play Navy last Saturday," wired Wood, "Harvard will win." All-American center Bon Ticknor also wired victory...