Word: chandlers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formation of the new Student Advisory Committee was announced last night by T. H. Eliot '28, chairman of the committee. The following men were appointed: W. N. Bump '28, Chandler Robbins '28, J. O. Ross '29, Barrett Stevens '29, A. R. Sweezy '29, and John Noble Jr. '30. Two of the appointees, Robbins and Ross, were members of the committee during the past year. The appointments are subject to the approval of the newly-elected Student Council...
...author who has been too greatly neglected in these modern days of jazz novels, Percy Marks, James Oliver Curwood, and the ever-satisfying tabloid. He is one of those excellent Victorian writers whose works have been neglected simply because he was a Victorian. In the same category falls Joel Chandler Harris, a writer of immense charm and once of great popularity. To the shame of present day taste even Harris Uncle Remus stories are not now very widely read...
...other two boards are, in their final form: Editorial Board, A.F. Pavenstedt chairman, D. E. Shoene-Rene, H. M. Parker, R. D. Williams, E. C. Dieckerhoff; board, J.P. Barnes, R. M. Clements, J. G. Chandler, Robert Cushman Jr., Philip Donham, P. M. Dunham, P. M. Easton, M. W. McNear, Abbot Peterson Jr., A. W. Weed...
That manufacturers not allied with General Motors or with Ford are about to merge for protection. Gossip, totally unverified, connects Packard, Dodge, Chrysler, Mack trucks, Fierce-Arrow,, Hudson and Chandler-Cleveland as potential factors of some such coalition. The kernel of fact is that promoters are constantly putting propositions to manufacturers, ideas which usually dissolve to nothing...
BLACK APRIL-Julia Peterkin- Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). A small book of sketches called Green Thursday, published three years ago, revealed Mrs. Peterkin as an interpreter of Negro peasants whose equal had not been seen since Joel Chandler Harris. Now Mrs. Peterkin has fulfilled the implication of her sketch book with a tremendous painting, a mural in sharp tempera, upon which appears the entire population of an isolated plantation-all the huts, with the doors open, all the hearths, pots, newspapered walls and floor chinks; all the hound dogs, sow pens, butchered hogs, wood piles; all the murmurous lanes and sweaty...