Word: headmastership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned down a fat sum his father offered to set him up in business. Instead, after getting his $BK at Yale, he worked as a cowboy in Wyoming, later in an automobile assembly plant, became a Socialist, lectured on labor problems at Pomona College until dismissed. He took the headmastership of a school endowed by his father, entered Congress as a New Dealer in 1936. On the Dies Committee, whose conduct he has called "reprehensible," Jerry Voorhis can be counted upon to temper Rightist blasts for Leftist lambs...
...Manhattan's Trinity Church ("one of the most enviable jobs in or beyond the Episcopal Church" which has often proved a stepping-stone to the top-ranking bishopric of New York). St. Paul's is the oldest and biggest of the haughty Episcopal preparatory schools, and its headmastership always ranked high, but Dr. Drury's nolo episcopari enormously increased the prestige of the job. When stern, sonorous Dr. Drury died last February, S. P. S. trustees searched the Church for a man capable of filling Dr. Drury's shoes. Meanwhile, quiet Vice-Rector Crocker Kittredge...
Founded in 1810, Lawrenceville was reorganized in 1884 by the late James Cameron Mackenzie, who gave it one of the first U. S. "house plans." Lean years lay behind the school when Mather Almon Abbott took its headmastership in 1919. Halifax born and Oxford bred, "The Bott" had taught President Roosevelt at Groton, had been crew coach and Latin teacher at Yale, was big, ruddy, firm-willed. At Lawrenceville he upped scholarship and enrollment, turned everybody out for sports, started rowing and polo, opened a Lower School for boys under 14, established scholarships for British boys. His biggest & best jobs...