Word: yaleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baiting Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, addressed the Advertising Club of New York last week on a subject of much concern to Red-baiters-radicalism in the colleges. He, a Yaleman, said that "pink doctrines" originate in eastern seaboard institutions. Ignoring the paradox, he also said that the "excessive extravagance" of U. S. school and college buildings is "merely imitated after the baronial and palatial halls of Harvard and Yale." Later: "Perhaps I should have included Princeton." Next day Col. McCormick was neatly pinked by genial Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton. Dean Gauss said he knew...
...legal lore, for private integrity and public highmindedness, President Roosevelt could not duplicate Senator WTalsh as an Attorney General. Nor did Mr. Roosevelt at first try. He appointed Connecticut's Homer Stille Cummings, 62, only as a stopgap, to have a full Cabinet slate at the inaugural. A Yaleman (1891), Mr. Cummings began his legal career in populous, wealthy Fairfield County, served three terms as Mayor of Stamford, today lives in Greenwich. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), broad-shouldered, partly bald, he first came into national view as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1919-20). Since then...
...Delaware & Hudson, triumphantly announced that he had bought 10% of Central's stock (TIME, Feb. 6). Last week he was trying to persuade the I. C. C. to let him have an official seat at Central's council table. Central's president, Frederick Ely Williamson, a Yaleman like Pennsylvania's Atterbury, has as his principal worry $80,000,000 in bank and R. F. C. loans, bond maturities in the next two years...
Honored-Connecticut's Governor Wilbur Lucius Cross, with the Montclair Yale Bowl, as a Yaleman who has "won his Y in life"; Dr. George E. Hale, honorary director of the Mount Wilson Observatory (Pasadena, Calif.), by the British Royal Society's Copley Medal, for work on the sun's magnetic field; Nobel Prizeman Dr. Fritz Haber, by the Royal Society's Rumford Medal, for work in thermodynamics; Munich Professor Richard Willstatter by the Davy Medal, for organic chemistry researches; Cambridge Professor Dr. James Chadwick, by the Hughes Medal, for demonstrating the existence of neutrons (TIME, March...
...secretary; Frederick Leroy Hutson its onetime registrar. Adam Leroy Jones is director of admissions at Columbia; George Dobbin Brown was librarian at General Theological Seminary. Princeton teachers but not "preceptor guys" were Scientists Sir James Hopwood Jeans and Owen Willans Richardson. Variously famed are Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham (Yaleman), Novelist Maxwell Struthers Burt, Songman Sigmund Spaeth and his crew-coaching, English-teaching half-brother John Duncan, Donald Clive Stuart, adviser of the Triangle Club, Charles William Kennedy, retired chairman of the Committee on Athletics...