Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Howard Taft, he has kept the court abreast of its docket by having all petitions for review, particularly those in criminal cases, acted upon in a week or so, winnowing out the real questions from the dilatory technicalities. Fortnight ago the Supreme Court refused to consider Albert Bacon Fall's bribery review after his petition had been on file just five days...
This syllabus of culture, or notebook of Durant, lists: ten Greatest Thinkers (Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Copernicus, Bacon, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Darwin) ; ten Greatest Poets (Homer, Author of the Psalms, Euripides, Lucretius, Dante, Lipo, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Whitman); 100 Best Books for an education (approximate cost, $300; time required for reading: four years at seven hours per week, ten hours per volume). Syllabuster Durant reviews his favorite modern philosophers (Spengler, Keyserling, Bertrand Russell), his favorite modern literary lights (Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, John Cowper Powys), fills up the rest of his 426 pages with comments on his trips...
...trustees who meet this week to decide the question which has heated up many a Stanford alumnus: Shall Dr. Wilbur continue to administer the university from Washington, or shall complete control be given to Acting President Robert Eckles Swain? Among the trustees are: Banker Leland Whitman Cutler, of Bacon, Cutler & Cooke in San Francisco; Sugar Merchant Wallace McKinney Alexander, past president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce; Board Chairman Frank Bartow Anderson of the Bank of California; Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times; Judges John Thomas Nourse Jr. and Marcus Cauffman Sloss; President Paul Shoup of Southern...
University--Stroke, G. J. Cassedy '33; 7, Robert Saltonstall, Jr. '33; 6, W. B. Bacon '33; 5, Malcolm Bancroft '33; 4, A. N. Webster '31; 3, J. M. Erickson '32; 2, J. W. Hallowell '31; Bow, W. H. Holcombe '33; Cox, H. H. Bissell...
William Benjamin Bacon, of Jamaica Plain...