Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no evidence of socialism or communism in Russian economic life since industry still deals with the payments of wages and would probably have no objection to profits on exported goods," said Arthur Garfield Hays, counsel for the Civil Liberties Union, speaking before the Harvard Student Liberal Club at luncheon yesterday. Mr. Hays has just returned from a summer's stay in Russia, investigating conditions...
During recent years the visiting speaker has waged a vigorous fight in his capacity as a lawyer against repressive measures. He is now chief counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union and has figured in many important cases recently. Last spring he came to Boston to defend Mr. H. L. Mencken during his trial here in connection with the publishing of the story "Hatrack" in the American Mercury magazine. The appearance of Mr. Hays will open the Liberal Club's speakers program for the year on which are the names of several noted men whose dates will be announced definitely...
This August Heckscher, who "bounds" about, is a happy old man, doing just as he pleases. After the Civil War he came to the U. S. from Germany and by 1905 had become sufficiently rich (coal, mines, New Jersey Zinc Co.) to retire. He thought to devote all his time to ameliorating the living conditions of poor children. He likes them, pities them. But business oppor-tunities-railroads, steel works, Manhattan and Florida realty-knocked, assiduously, made him richer...
...that gruff celebrity a play. Mansfield commissioned him. With the aid of Silk Goshen, his mother's Jewish impresario and second husband, he spent a hermit year in a fishing colony off the Maine coast. The play was written and accepted, but what it was, except "about the Civil War," the world never knew. Mansfield died and for friendship's sake, John Lord destroyed his first play. Out of the same year, however, came a narrative poem of the sea, for which he received the International Prize...
Professor W. E. Hocking '01, Professor of Natural Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...