Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among this year's Fellows will be Thomas W. Danner of North Carolina, Joseph A. DeVincentis of Somerville, Robert J. Hall of Franklin Park, Illinois, and Alexis E. Laster of El Monte, California...
Even in the age of declining Supreme Court prestige, the appointment had its note of irony. In Franklin Roosevelt's vain but tumultuous campaign to pack the nation's highest court with added New Dealing justices, no man raised a louder voice for the White House enterprise than burly, boot-jawed "Shay" Minton. As a result of his signal service, he had been mentioned for just about every vacancy on the court that turned up in the past decade. But until Harry Truman broke the news last week, his name had hardly entered the speculation this time. Battle...
Presentation of the degrees will be made at ceremonies commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the opening of Smith. In addition to Miss Cam, degrees will also go to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sarah Gibson Blanding, president of Vassar, and Margaret Clapp, newly-elected president of Wellesley...
...Greenfield thought he could do more-as he had with a dozen other projects. As a real-estate salesman, Russian-born Al Greenfield was selling $60 million worth of property a year by the time he was 26. Later he built Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Hotel, soon had a finger in most local financial pies. He was worth $15 million and dominated Philadelphia's huge Bankers Trust Co. when the 1930 crash wiped...
...With Franklin Simon's gross of $20 million, Greenfield expected to boost City Stores' 1949 sales to $210 million, push hard on the heels of Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. as the sixth biggest U.S. department-store chain...