Word: founder
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This week, as in 1917, high on Army's headache list is a shortage of good corporals, sergeants and second lieutenants, without which Army's whopping training program may well founder. To get noncoms and shavetails in quantity, Army bosses may well have to junk some tenets of promotion by seniority. Stock Army retort to suggestions of promotion for merit has long been that such a system would encourage political toadying; but low-bracket officers must be found, even if dull-witted veterans are passed over to commission brainy tenderfeet. To ferret out officer material, all rookies...
...trouble came three months ago when the board of trustees suddenly ousted three of their number: Edward G. Budd, famed builder of automobile bodies 'and streamlined trains; Ernest T. Trigg, a conservative paint manufacturer; and Rev. John Archibald MacCallum, a liberal Presbyterian pastor and oldtime friend of Founder Conwell. Soon ex-Trustee MacCallum began to make charges. For no obvious reason, eminent Surgeon W. Wayne Babcock of the medical school jumped into the fray with countercharges. Their cat-&-dog fight was joined by Dean Parkinson, Realtor-Trustee Albert Monroe Greenfield, perennial storm centre of Philadelphia business, banking and politics...
...Benton Harbor, Mich. is cached $10,000,000, the fortune of Benjamin Purnell, founder of the House of David, who died in 1927 soon after conviction for orgies...
Praise was showered on President-emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell '77, founder of the House system, at a formal dinner last night celebrating the tenth birthday of the founding of Dunster House. The Speakers, President Lowell, President James B. Conant '14, and Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, were introduced by the Housemaster, Clarence H. Haring...
They were Frank P. Davidson '39, founder and first president of the Harvard Guardian, Richard T. Davis '38, summa cum laude graduate in government, and Robert E. Lane '39, former president of the Student Union. Other graduates working with them are Philip Bugby '39, Enno R. Hobbing '40, and George W. Phillips...