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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spriest of all financial oldsters is a testy, box-jawed Bostonian named Frederick Henry Prince, who is, among other things, the money behind Chicago's smelly Stock Yard and the Board Chairman of Armour & Co. Last week two big newspapers, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, carried a story about Financier Prince: that in view of his approaching (Nov. 24) 80th birthday, he would not stand for reelection to the chairmanship of Armour. The explanation given, that a younger man would be able to devote more time to the company's management, was plausible enough, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Deny That Rumor! | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Showing more teamwork and far better blocking than last week, the Freshmen made their initial tally early in the first period, on a down-the-field march sparked by McNicol's tricky off-tackle running, and then a 25-yard pass, McNicol to Loring. The conversion failed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLINGS WHITEWASH WEAK WORCESTER, 19-0 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...thirty-nine years ago when an instructor named Mr. Coolidge took his place in the Harvard mathematics department. 'Gradually the influence of his personality has spread. His imposing marches through the Yard, his witty mathematics classes, his total abstinence from the letter "r" along with his notable hospitality, have become as much a part of life here as John Harvard's statue or the elms in the Yard. We hope that Professor Coolidge, even after his retirement, will not make his absence too sharply felt by withdrawing completely from the scenes in which he has taken so great a part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LIVING LEGEND | 10/14/1939 | See Source »

...celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the purchase of Dana House in the Yard to be the first Harvard Observatory will be a part of the meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Astronomers to Meet Today In University Observatory | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

...pamphlets were addressed to "the students and faculty of Harvard University" and urged them to "keep America out of the Imperialist War." Col.Apted's Yard sleuths swooped down on the member of the Young Communist League and confiscated his literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Y. C. L. PROPAGANDIST NABBED BY YARD POLICE IN LEVERETT | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

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