Word: acceptances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same floor Vice President Charles Curtis has taken a three-room suite. Mr. Curtis is debating which of five secret offers of employment he will accept after March 4. Other eminent G. 0. Politicians with Shoreham offices: Everett Sanders, chairman of the Republican National Committee; Ray Benjamin, Hoover adviser from California; Edward Tracy ("Ted") Clark, Coolidge secretary; Col. William Joseph ("Wild Bill'') Donovan, onetime Assistant to the Attorney General; Mabel Walker Willebrandt. onetime Assistant Attorney General. Owner Hurley will have a 16-room suite in his building where he will practice law with an as yet unnamed Washington...
...Good poetry, according to my view, should be written by good Catholics and good atheists: not by a man with a religion of his own. Shelley's didactiveness compares unfavorably with Dante's for that reason. Dante assumes that we accept the scheme of the Catholic Church; Shelley tries to convince us of the scheme itself. The poet cannot afford to teach; he is quite at liberty to expound ideas, so long as they aren't his own ideas, for then there is a chance that he will make poetry...
From Mr. Prince's particular point of view, the conclusion that the college teacher represents a fair weather claque may well seem irresistible. He has probably grown a little weary of complacent rationalizations after 1929 from those who were once very prone to accept the new era without a second thought. But this does not change, although it may modify the fact that his own position is similarly untenable. For he does not distinguish with sufficient precision the real and fundamental position of the college professor...
...supposed to represent? Certainly the class is now well enough acquainted to choose with reason and without delay whom they desire for president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer. Probably they would renominate some who have already been put on the list but at least they would not have to accept what was handed out to them or else nothing...
...Professors," declared Businessman Prince, "are one of the chief curses of the country. They talk too much. Most professors are a bunch of cowards and meddlers. Men do not shrink from life unless there is some cowardice about them. Professors do not hesitate to accept the endowments of those who have served the people and the nation in commerce and industry, but do nothing themselves but talk. You have only to think back over the last ten years to realize the difficulties we have been drawn into through professors. The sooner we get away from their influence the better...