Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russia, in the 21st year since her great Revolution, last week celebrated her coming of age. Her celebration was to let her people exercise the right of universal suffrage. For years Russian workers have voted locallyvotes of 25,000 townspeople counted as much as the votes of 125,000 country people, thereby keeping the conservative peasantry under control. But last week Russia, having come of age, allowed her people all the fun and trappings of a real national election...
...close of camp the members of the Class of '37 received their commissions an Second Lieutenants, Field Artillery Reserve. These were Philip M. Andress, William P. Bittenbender, John Fox, Keith H. Higgs, Philip A. Lief received a certificate which will entitle him to be commissioned when he reaches his 21st birthday...
Died. Chester Alan Arthur, 73, sportsman and art collector, eldest son and namesake of the 21st U. S. President; of a. heart attack; in Colorado Springs, Colo...
...readers could name a dozen who are fairly well-known: T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robinson Jeffers, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Conrad Aiken. Which, if any, will still be remembered by the 21st Century? Eliot and Pound, heading most contemporary lists, seem fairly safe. Last week another name was proposed for the Hall of Fame; and Proposer Philip Horton seemed sure that posterity would second his nomination of Hart Crane, who led a violent life, met a violent...
...Changing her scuffed, rubber-soled campus shoes for evening slippers, President Aurelia Henry Reinhardt of Mills College at Oakland, Calif, presided at a dinner celebrating two anniversaries, the 88th of the founding of Mills, one of the oldest colleges for women in the U. S., and the 21st of her successful presidency. That was modest President Reinhardt's concession to the Manhattan fund-raising firm of Tamblyn & Brown, who needed an Occasion to help them raise $1,000,000 for Mills's faculty budget. President Reinhardt invoked the memory of her predecessor, Missionary Susan Tolman Mills, whose husband...