Word: robert
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Undersigned subscriber is a "Cover to Cover" reader of TIME, but, I have seen no mention of the passing of Robert S. Vessey, Gov. of S. Dak., 1908-12. He issued the first "Mother's Day'' proclamation, full of beautiful thoughts, and was a very lovable man. He died 10/17/29, in Pasadena, Calif...
...President Hoover last week reappointed Joseph Bartlett Eastman to the lately active Interstate Commerce Commission (see p. 11) to the great disgruntlement of reactionary rail men. Also appointed to the I. C. C. was Robert M. Jones of Tennessee...
Associate Professor Robert Dudley French of the English department is a teaching professor as well as a scholar. Graduated from Yale in 1910, he returned to teach in 1915. In 1920 he took over a Chaucer course, brushed up its fustiness, livened it, taught it well, increasing the enrolment from 30 to 300 in nine years...
...Aldrich was elected to succeed him. A yacht-goer, Lawyer Aldrich is 44, also a director of Bankers Trust Co. While he has been legal advisor to Equitable for ten years, most famed of his legal activities was to handle John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s ousting of Oilman Robert Wright Stewart from Standard Oil of Indiana. After his election, Mr. Aldrich frankly conceded he came to Equitable representing Rockefeller interests, confirming the long-held assumption that Equitable is controlled by the Rockefellers...
...SECRET OF 37 HARDY STREET-Robert J. Casey-Bobbs Merrill...