Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publishers move into open combat. Vaguely speaking of a "nationwide war," Macmillan Co-., Ginn & Co. and Houghton Mifflin Co. all brought suit against an obscure Harvard "College Tutoring Bureau." They alleged infringements on copyrights of such books as Frank William Taussig's Principles of Economics, a Life of Andrew Jackson, Garver & Hansen's Principles of Economics. They demanded an accounting of profits, charging that the College Tutoring Bureau used 200 books owned by a score or so of publishers...
...Budapest, Andrew Klopatsko proposed to a wealthy peasant girl, was rejected, shot at her, then at himself, killed neither, went to jail. Released three years later he discovered she was married, set her house afire, went back to prison. Released two years later, he discovered she was a widow, proposed, married...
...Died. Andrew Cameron Pearson, 59, board chairman of United Publishers Corp. (trade journals), president of National Publishers Assn., national chairman of the American Publishers Conference, brother of Governor Paul Martin Pearson of the Virgin Islands; of a heart attack; in Montclair...
However hard it may be to define "American" to a foreigner, all U. S. citizens can see that the word fits like a glove such U. S. figures as Andrew Jackson. Man's man and no saint, he combines the best features of the Spirit of '76, the Wild West and a success story. His latest biographer does not carry Jackson's epic career through its Presidential conclusion but ends it with his retirement in 1821 when, full of honorable scars, Old Hickory was willing to call his day a day. More ambitious attempt than Author James...
Second-generation Irish (his father emigrated from County Antrim), young Andrew was spindly of frame but hot of head. Too young to do much personal damage in the Revolution, at 13 he joined the Army, was taken prisoner. After the War, as a law-student in North Carolina, he was known as "the most roaring, rollicking, game-cocking, horse-racing, card-playing, mischievous fellow that ever lived in Salisbury." His mother's parting advice he never forgot: "Andy . . . never tell a lie. nor take what is not your own, nor sue . . . for slander. . . . Settle them cases yourself." Andy settled...