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...weeks ago that the Democratic National Committee had sold souvenir campaign books-bound in leather and autographed by the President -for $250 each, and that some of the $700,000 worth of books had been bought by corporations, which are not allowed to contribute to campaign funds, Republican Representative Bertrand H. Snell naturally demanded an investigation (TIME, June 21). Last week, while Representative Snell's resolution remained securely pigeonholed by the House Rules Committee, the subject of the campaign books cropped up again, this time in the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce investigation of the Van Sweringen railway system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: $15,000 Soap Wrappers | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

Last week, the ingenious Mr. Morgan having died (TIME, May 3), Secretary Early felt called upon to make explanations, because Representative Bertrand H. Snell (Republican) produced the photostat of a letter, purporting to have been sent out by the Democratic National Committee, offering copies of the book for sale and saying: "We are using this book as a means of clearing up the deficit and the President has made his contribution by individually autographing each of the volumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bibliophiles | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

When these confident expressions got around to Minority Leader Bertrand Snell, he took the floor for a shot at the White House: "It seems to me . . . that the final analysis of his whole proposition is the President agrees he will spend practically the same amount of money as the members have decided they want to spend for the same purposes. If this is true . . . why does the President object to Congress earmarking the money and insist on reserving to himself the right to earmark it?" Another shot was added by Mr. Snell's New York colleague John Taber: "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: De-Porking | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Jones, who has already published a work in biochemistry, will investigate methods of synthesis of phenathrene compounds, particularly sex hormones, sterols, bile acids, and carecinogenic hydrocarbons. Russell and Nowell-Smithh will study philosophy, with the latter devoting special attention to the mathematical logic of Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead. American theory and practice in the education of 14-18-year-old boys will be the subject of Smith's work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR BRITISHERS WILL STUDY HERE NEXT YEAR | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...from those of many Smith alumnae. He went to Northampton in 1917 from an English professorship at Harvard, where his tall German wife Elizabeth had been snubbed by War-minded faculty wives. Stanchly liberal, Dr. Neilson defended Sacco & Vanzetti, early advocated the recognition of Russia, invited such figures as Bertrand Russell and Harold Laski to speak at Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Neilson's 20th | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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