Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert M. Irwin '37 presided at the meeting and was elected chairman of a committee to revise the constitution and submit it for approval. Other members of this committee are Professor Morison, John L. Davidson '37, Harvey M. Dawson '37, James B. Hallett '37, and William A. Wright '37. The next meeting will be Wednesday, March 14 at 7.30 o'clock in the Union...
While Senators were thus contesting with the President the question of who should be generous, Representatives were likewise seeking credit for generosity. First house bill introduced in the current congress was Texas' Wright Patman's perennial measure to pay the soldiers' bonus in cash at once. This form of generosity involved $2,400,000,000, not from cash on hand, but in greenbacks. The Ways & Means Committee allowed the bill to lie fallow because 1) the House, as it did during the last Congress, would pass it if it got a chance; 2) the Administration, busy borrowing...
...John's. Last fortnight Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, onetime (1930-33) Federal Director of Prohibition, was elected president of St. John's College at Annapolis, Md. Simultaneously Douglas Huntly Gordon, 31, was abruptly dismissed as the head of the third oldest college in the U. S. Appointed acting president until Mr. Woodcock takes office next autumn was Dr. Reginald Heber Ridgely, biology professor...
...pound class: John I. Angel '36 defeated Wright (D), by decision. Time advantage...
Died. Charles Ranlett Flint, 84, retired industrial promoter, international agent, sportsman; of arteriosclerosis, after two years' illness; in Washington. Son of a New England clipper fleet owner, he fitted out warships for Brazilian revolutionists; sold torpedo boats and submarines to Russia, a cruiser to Japan; negotiated the Wright Brothers' first sales of airplanes abroad. He gathered a fortune reputed to be $100,000,000, had a hand in forming so many U. S. corporations that newspapers christened him "Father of Trusts...