Word: becker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coming to Harvard this year as lecturers and tutors in Sociology are Edward Wight Bakke, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale, and Howard Paul Becker, Associate Professor of Sociology at Smith College. Dr. Bakke will be at Harvard during the second half-year and Dr. Becker during the first half-year...
...Cincinnati dock, one sultry afternoon, Mary Becker Greene stood in the wheelhouse of her newest steamboat, peered up the Ohio River, impatiently fingered the wheel. Hefty "Ma" Greene is the only licensed woman navigator on inland waterways in the U. S. With her two hefty sons, Tom and Chris, she operates the Greene Line, founded by her late husband. At 68, she can do most shipboard jobs, bosses her crews without profanity, likes to sew and embroider on deck. Recently "Ma" Greene bought for $135,000 the old-style packet Cape Girardeau which Chicago's onetime Mayor William Hale...
...Chicago last week the Society for the Improvement of Children's Programs was hopefully suggesting to neighbors' boys & girls that Bob Becker's Dog Chats and the Singing Lady are as entertaining as the thunderous radio exploits of Buck Rogers. In Columbus, Ohio the members of the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education and the Institute for Education by Radio met in joint convention to wring their hands over the bloody adventures of Dick Tracy, the struggles of Little Orphan Annie, the blood-curdling mysteries of Chandn the Magician. Burden of the complaint was that Junior...
First off, the candidates for President-General tested their strength by rival teas. Mrs. Becker, with Mrs. Magna to help her, served ice cream, cake and punch at the Mayflower Hotel, drew 3,000 Daughters and friends. At the Willard, Mrs. Gillentine, serving only lemonade, drew a scant 2,000 but outdid her rival with a string of celebrities including Speaker of the House Joseph Wellington Byrns and his wife...
...third day Gillentine supporters brought delegates to their feet in a rising vote for a big Army & Navy. On the fourth day the Daughters trooped excitedly to the polls, cast their ballots for President-General. The winner: Mrs. Becker, 1,436-to-619. Delighted Mrs. Magna embraced her classmate, kissed her for cameramen...