Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven, that the Corporation did not violate these principles. They found "no conclusive evidence that objections to Dr. Davis's political and economic opinions or to his civic activities were the sufficient or the decisive consideration in causing the President (Angell) to oppose Dr. Davis's retention of his chair...
...their toes by lively competition for their professional services. In no danger of slacking is Harvard's Economist John Henry Williams, world-famed authority on money and banking. But bald, caustic Professor Williams, despite the fact that his department conferred on him in 1933 its prized Nathaniel Ropes chair, left Cambridge a month later to become economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Since then a Harvard professor chiefly in name, he has been upped to the bank's deputy governorship, which the 1935 Banking Act converted into a vice-presidency. Last week, with a shrewd...
...York dealer. For $32,000, the same dealer carried off a rare 16th Century Brussels Gothic tapestry, 13-by-21 ft., depicting the story of the Prodigal Son. For practicing prodigals was the sale's oddest item, a rare Georgian walnut & leather "drunkard's chair" with slots at the sides for poles by which chair & occupant could be carried. Total sales for the week...
Next Year professor Beale will continue to held his chair and will also give several courses for graduate students...
...Things look bad for Nell O'Neill (Madge Evans) when John Wales (Henry Daniell) is stabbed at the seance, but clear up when, at the next psychic session, Dick Crosby (Thomas Beck) uses lampblack to prove that naughty Dr. Mason (Charles Trowbridge) was not holding hands. The Thirteenth Chair still saves a septuagenarian shiver for the moment when Madame La Grange reveals the murder knife stuck in the ceiling, but as dramaturgy it is more convincingly dead than any of Dr. Mason's victims...