Word: brett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Wallace Brett Donham, Dean of the School of Business Administration of Harvard University; to be a director of Royal Baking Powder Co., chairman of its finance committee. Dean Donham has other directorships (coal, gas, banks, travel agency...
...LIFE-Francis Brett Young-Knopf ($2.50). Versatile author of psychic Cold Harbour, Conradian Sea Horses, two volume saga Love Is Enough, Dr. (medical) Young now combines a poetic setting in Shropshire with the vivid glitter of Egypt. Ruth Morgan leaves her English countryside to marry an Egyptologist, whose heart, but for an April with her in Shropshire, is buried with tattooed mummies in the tombs of Thebes. Bezuidenhout's work is also in Thebes, but his anthropological research is for the sake of his profession as doctor to the living, and not in adoration of dead antiquity...
...Author's Note to THE MURDER AT FLEET (J. P. Lippincott Company, 1928. $2.00.) Eric Brett Young tells the reader that there is not a word of truth in his whole novel. Not that the reader would for very long be kept in doubt because whatever merits this detective tale night possess plausibility is not one of them. Still it compensates for its lack of realism by a surplus of mystery and melodrama. A scarecrow plays a major part in the plot. Every elue in the murder led to a blank wall until Detective Faucet spied the blood...
Cramped quarters and all its attendant ills was the chief reason given late last night by Dean Wallace Brett Donham of the Business School in explanation of the walkout that occurred at four o'clock yesterday afternoon when a petition and notice of the strike was delivered to the Faculty authorities. The petition was presented by Mr. Scott representing the disgruntled men, and bore twenty signatures representing the entire Business School teaching force. It was decided by the strikers that they would make no undue demonstrations unless forced by University action against them...
LOVE IS ENOUGH-Francis Brett Young-Knopf ($2.50). The popular author's "major work...