Word: yaleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fraud indictment in U. S. history. Smartest of the three Yalemen was Wallace G. Garland, Class of 1925 (Sheffield). Member of a solid Pittsburgh family, he was not a conspicuous undergraduate except as a brilliant student. Even Professor Irving Fisher liked his original notions on business and economics. But Yaleman Garland's notions were far more original than Professor Fisher ever suspected. While still an undergraduate, Yaleman Garland heard about a signal device invented by a "Sheff" engineering professor named Henry A. Haugh. Now widely used, the device automatically changed the traffic lights at highway intersections when cars approached...
...land boom, two hurricanes, a plague of Mediterranean fruit flies and a Depression laid Florida low. A Brooklyn-born Yaleman has done what he could to hoist it to its feet. Jolly, plump Dave Sholtz went to Florida at 22 to study law. Becoming an Elk, a Shriner, a Rotarian and president of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, he learned to spout the booster's creed. When Florida elected him Governor in 1932 he proved his loyalty by routing official drones, paring expenses, making the State's financial outlook the most hopeful in seven years...
Georgia fancies itself something of a Southern Yale. Its first president was a Yaleman, Abraham Baldwin, who arrived from New Haven with blueprints of Yale's Connecticut Hall, used them to build Georgia's Franklin Hall. Aping Yale, Georgia took a bulldog as its mascot. When Georgia had a new stadium to dedicate in 1929 Yale graciously sent its football team, which Georgia trounced...
Last week the following were news: William McCormick Blair, first cousin of Publisher Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, graduated from Yale in 1907. That year a bright young Chicagoan named Francis Augustus Bonner graduated from Harvard. Yaleman Blair worked in Chicago's Northern Trust Co., famed training ground for brokers and bankers, then joined Lee, Higginson & Co. Harvardman Bonner became financial editor of the defunct Chicago Evening Post, a railroad statistician, then also joined Lee, Higginson. Last week Mr. Blair, 50, and Mr. Bonner, 49, teamed together to form the underwriting and general securities house of Blair...
Last week Yaleman Embree retaliated with a blunt statement that no university in the South can claim inclusion in the first twelve. Thereupon he listed his choices for the first twelve in the order of educational excellence: Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, Yale, California, Minnesota, Cornell, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Princeton, Johns Hopkins. Said he: "More than half of the country's great universities are in the Middle West and Far West. This came about through John D. Rockefeller's building the University of Chicago and maintaining it as a standard for educational institutions. The great South has no such school...