Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jump for your lives. I'll hold her until you're all clear!" yelled Pilot Bernard Gully of Britain's Royal Air Force above the droning roar of his remaining motor one day last week. With its other motor out of commission from a backfire, the ungainly Vickers Virginia X bomber wallowed heavily 2,000 ft. over Surrey. While Pilot Gully fought to right the ship, four members of the crew crawled obediently back to the tail, bailed out one by one, jerked their parachute rip cords, floated peacefully earthwards. All but Aircraftsman Lewis (who broke...
...held throughout the land, the tickets to which entered purchasers in raffles for sizeable cash awards. During the two years $2,200,000 was taken in. Mooseheart (Ill.) orphanage, for whose benefit the balls were ostensibly staged, got $250,000. Of the remainder, some $400,000 went to promoters Bernard C. McGuire & Theodore G. Miller of the Moose "propagation Department," $200,000 was refunded in prizes, $173,000 went to Moose Davis, the balance to local and national Moose organizations. Promoter Miller's contract to arrange the brotherhood's lottery-balls was signed, he testified, "with the approval and knowledge...
...Head of the committee is Citizen Calvin Coolidge, from the directorate of New York Life. Said Mr. Bennett to reporters: "The country as a whole has a great deal of confidence in Mr. Coolidge. ... I believe him to be a level-headed gentleman." Other committee members: Alfred Emanuel Smith, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Alexander Legge, Clark Howell Sr. (publisher of the Atlanta Constitution...
...John Jay Chapman--Have cried aloud that it is true. Now the CRIMSON assumes it and defends it--speaking for the Harvard undergraduates. One can only hope, sir, that the news of Harvard's surrender, like the one-time rumour of Mark Twain's premature death, is slightly exaggerated. Bernard Iddings Bell...
Professor Bernard Iddings Bell, of Columbia University, virtually charges in the September Atlantic Monthly that student indifference to religion is the fault of university faculties. To illustrate his contention Professor Bell relates how the Student Council at Harvard recommended in 1925 that "a new kind of required course be made available which would include the study, not merely of philosophy, but also of religion." The writer believes that the Harvard Faculty actually defeated the purpose of the recommendation. He says, "The new course has indeed been added to the curriculum, but it is only a half course, and instead...