Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Wilfred Washington Fry, 61, onetime Y.M.C.A. executive, head of N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., potent Philadelphia advertising agency; of complications following influenza; in Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College Hospital which last year elected him its president. A Baptist and ardent Dry, he accepted no post-Repeal liquor accounts, dropped Canada Dry when that firm began to sell gin, whiskey, beer (TIME, Sept...
...educates some 550 boys from all over the U. S. Its atmosphere is sporty, informal, distinct from the inbred smallness of such schools as Groton and from the democratic bigness of Exeter and Andover. Last week at its 126th commencement, Lawrenceville heard good news. Capitalist Edward Stephen Harkness, ardent apostle of the House Plan who had given $26,000,000 to install it at Harvard and his alma mater Yale, had decided to make the House Plan's early home a laboratory for his second educational enthusiasm, the Conference Plan. Next year Lawrenceville, armed with a blank check signed...
...sawed-off megaphone and a bundle of blank aluminum records, a lean, scraggly-haired New Yorker has been touring the South for the past nine years, collecting Negro songs that few white men have ever heard. Like his older brother Artist Hugo Gellert, Collector Lawrence Gellert is an ardent Left Winger. He scorns the idea that most Negroes when left to themselves will either sing spirituals or dance to the blues. The songs that fascinated Lawrence Gellert were those symbolic of Negro class consciousness, unrest and despair. From more than 300 that he has collected he published 24 last week...
Died. General Karl Litzmann, 86, commander of the Imperial German Army which broke through the Russian Front in 1917, ardent Nazi; of old age; in New Globsow, Pomerania. Because the Reichstag is traditionally opened by its oldest member, Nazis elected Oldster Litzmann a deputy in 1932 to sidetrack Communist Clara Zetkin, then...
...year-old Brooklynite and American Legionary; Senator Robert Wagner; Morris S. Tremaine, five-time State Comptroller; and Albany's Mayor John Boyd Thacher II, who gave Herbert Lehman a fight for the 1932 nomination with Tammany's ardent backing. In Albany Governor Lehman remained aloof from the shouting. To newshawks a close friend remarked: "It would take an earthquake to make him change his mind...