Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word "humbug" had been applied in the House of Commons by Secretary of State for the Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas to the proposals which Mr. Bennett made at the opening of the Imperial Conference (TIME, Oct. 20). Back in London, Canada's Bennett, a devout and wealthy bachelor, maintained silence for several days. When it became plain that His Majesty's Government in Great Britain had no intention of offering voluntary apology to His Majesty's Government in Canada for the use by a responsible Minister of the Crown of the word "hum-bug," Mr. Bennett...
Throughout England Conservative papers called the Bennett statement a "crushing document," flayed Laborites Thomas and MacDonald for "insulting and estranging" Canada. Fortunately the blood of Britons is not hot. When Bachelor Bennett and his sister-hostess left their London hotel to take the boat-train for Liverpool (en route to Canada) they were accompanied by bluff, expansive, jovial Jim Thomas...
...must not be allowed to crystallize upon an idea oppressive to the Emperor's brothers and contrary to the interests of the Dynasty. Prince Takamatsu, second brother of the Emperor, is still on his round-the- world honeymoon (TIME, May 5). Prince Sumi, youngest Imperial brother is a bachelor aged...
...ethical nor social questions ... it does not even take a broad view of business as business . . . the main emphasis of the school ... is concentrated on 'getting on.' ... University of Chicago applicants are assured that they can by mail acquire "one half of the units requisite to the bachelor's degree." [It is scandalous] "that the prestige of the University of Chicago should be used to bamboozle well-meaning but untrained persons with the notion that they can thus receive a high school or a college education." To Dr. Flexner's attack came retorts: "Absurd!" Said...
There are 6,000 men and women "studying journalism" in schools and departments of journalism in colleges and universities, the approved schools offering a four-year course leading to the bachelor's degree. Professional courses are put first in the curriculum of these schools, but if the advice of Charles A. Dana is followed--and it is the soundest advice--the courses called "supplementary" which it is suggested would prepare the reporter for better service--in history, economics, government, politics, sociology, literature, natural science and psychology and philosophy--should be the basic disciplines...