Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musket in the local Indian "war" in 1855, attended Pacific University and became Portland's first librarian. A short article he wrote about Lincoln's assassination interested Pittock, who hired him in 1865. But five years later they disagreed over politics, and Scott went to the rival Bulletin, later serving as Collector of Customs. In 1877, he returned to the Oregonian to stay. Combining immense physical vigor with wide knowledge and a penetrating intellect, Scott was the Oregonian to thousands who never heard of Pittock. In 1933 his statue in bronze was set up in Portland...
Featuring an article entitled "Harvard at the Turn of the Century," by William B. Bragdon '01, the first issue of the 1938-39 Alumni Bulletin goes on sale today. Bragdon relates the tale of football games of yore, when the present Anderson, bridge had as its predecessor a "shaky and rickety draw-bridge." His article also included reminiscences about famous John the Orangeman, and some significant calls of "Rhinehart...
...instructor in English, from 1903 to 1913 curator of modern English Literature in the College Library; then became successively assistant dean and acting dean of the college. From 1907 to 1913 he was secretary of the Harvard Alumni Association, and later became editor of the Alumni Bulletin. He received the British Military Cross during the World...
...strike of technicians and office workers at Schlink's Consumers' Research. Inc. Kallet resigned as C. R. secretary, started Consumers Union of United States, Inc., aided by other C. R. experts who had been fired or quit. Since May 1936, when C. U. published its first bulletin, it has grown fast, now claims 60,000 members, of whom 47,000 pay the full membership fee of $3 a year. (There is limited membership for $1.) C. R.'s has stayed close to 60,000 since the strike, all but a few thousand student members paying the full...
TIME readers will try this experiment at their own risk. Fire as an Agent in Human Culture was published by the Smithsonian Institution (U. S. Nat'l Museum bulletin...