Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incensed and hurt, Sol Bloom cried: "At the outset I may say that this kind of work with me is a labor of love. Ever since I was a little boy I have delved into history. I like to read it, and I like to write it. ... I think that the books gotten out by the [Washington] Bicentennial Commission will live forever as the correct history of this country. . . . When I started on the Constitution to write the history of it, I just could not believe that there was so much misinformation on the Constitution...
Thus, for 51 summers, boys and girls have told their parents or nearest of kin what happened to them on July 1. Founded by John Ames Mitchell, editor of Life the Comic Weekly, the camps this year became the responsibility of LIFE the Picture Weekly, published by TIME Inc. The editors and publishers of the new LIFE resolved that Life Camps would go on, that for the first year all administrative expenses would be paid by the magazine, so that every dollar sent in by contributors would be converted into one full day in the country for one boy...
Executive Director of all Life Camps since 1925 is Dr. Lloyd Burgess Sharp, a 42-year-old Kansan. The covered wagon idea is his, as well as the broad educational aims of the camps. He started life as a farm boy, went to Kansas State Teachers' College, served in the Navy during the World War. After graduate work at Columbia University, and research for the New York City Board of Education, he joined Life Camps armed with a complete plan of reorganization. Dr. Sharp, who describes himself as the father of a Girl Scout, considers his job only half...
...Chief of the Reference Department of the New York Public Library. Lean, reserved, thoroughly professional Librarian Metcalf, 47, who will also serve as college librarian, began his career as a page in the Oberlin College Library and graduated in 1914 from the New York Public Library training school. Broad, boy-faced Amateur Blake, 50, wants more time for Byzantine history...
...handling of the panic won him his Treasury Department job. From 1919 to 1924 Banker Vanderlip made repeated trips abroad studying international finance. He predicted a world financial catastrophe unless all countries studied the U. S. Federal Reserve system. In 1935 he published his autobiography, From Farm Boy to Financier. In January 1936, he was called before the Senate Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry along with Financiers John Pierpont Morgan and Thomas William Lamont for questioning about the part which loans to the Allies played in carrying the U. S. into the World...