Word: matthew
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Through pedagogs' dreams flash the golden names of colleges which are currently hunting presidents: Harvard, Princeton, Virginia, Illinois, Toledo. Changes are expected at Washington; its President Matthew Lyle Spencer submitted a perfunctory resignation last month. Andover is looking for a headmaster. Last week another name went on the list, with the announcement of the resignation of President Thomas Franklin Kane of the University of North Dakota, who approaches 70 and a Carnegie Foundation pension. A Latin and Greek scholar, Dr. Kane graduated from De Pauw and Johns Hopkins. Before going to North Dakota in 1918, he was president...
President Matthew Chauncey ("Matt") Brush of American International Corp. is a potent booster of gold stocks. To celebrate Ontario's gold boom, fortnight ago he and a platoon of Wall Street operators visited the Porcupine fields as guests of President John P. ("Jack") Bickell of Mclntyre Porcupine Mines and Charles McCrea, Ontario's Minister of Mines. During the inspection tour Mr. Brush got lost for a while in a deep gallery. At a dinner given in a curling rink, Mr. Bickell introduced a miner quartet, grimy, sweat-streaked, dressed in their working clothes: rubber coats, boots, breeches, helmets...
...election of five Sophomores and two Juniors to various boards of the Lampoon was announced last night. Matthew Coff '36 was elected to the art board, and Francis Daniel Moore '35 to the literary board...
...over the usual number of neophytes. This was attributed to the "strenuous times" in which younger men were pushed ahead to ease the burden of oldsters. Leading the list of men with diversified interests was, as usual, Banker Charles Hayden with 82 directorships. Albert Henry Wiggin and Matthew Chauncey Brush tied with 47. Alfred Emanuel Smith listed seven. Leading those who sit at boardroom tables of subsidiaries and affiliates within one complex industrial empire was Albert John County, vice president in charge of finance and corporate relations of the Pennsylvania R.R. with 121-down five from last year. Close behind...
Alien Beale lately applied for U. S. citizenship, was refused it. Last week, acting as his own counsel, he filed a brief with Federal Judge Matthew M. Joyce. So did R. A. Carlson, district director of naturalization, representing the U. S. Government. Judge Joyce will decide between the two late this month. Central issue lay in the Kellogg-Briand Treaty. Alien Beale said he would bear arms only under the terms laid down by Statesman Kellogg, citizen of Minneapolis. He inferred that those terms make unnecessary any pledge and that the treaty "now constitutes our chief national defense." He declared...