Word: collision
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most colorful opposition was maintained by Collis E. Redd, self-styled National Director of the Constitutional Crusaders of America. When he was before the committee, Redd said he represented the interests of the "consumer, the unemployed and the old-age pensioners."
Medical School: Lucie Adelsberger, Berlin, Germany, instructor in bacteriology; George Schlomer, Berlin, Germany, instructor in psychiatry; Charles R. Atwell, '28, Boston, instructor in psychology; George M. Wyatt, Wilmore, Kentucky, instructor in Roentgenology; Rupert A. Chittick, Waverley, assistant in psychiatry; Thomas Colver, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, research fellow in medicine...
The Big Four of California (Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Collis P. Huntington), organizers of the Central Pacific, the Southern Pacific and innumerable West Coast companies, seem the most arrogant, most shameless of them all. Last week their group portrait appeared in a 424-page book which combined...
Stanford. Admirers compared Leland Stanford with Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander the Great and John Stuart Mill, but Partner Collis Huntington described him tersely as "a damned old fool." His profound thought before he answered a question made people look upon him as a thinker, until they discovered that it took him...
In his left-wing study of early U. S. capitalists, The Robber Barons (1934), Josephson wrote of men who "spoke little and did much"-Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Collis Huntington, Morgan, Rockefeller. In The Politicos he writes of men who did as little as possible and spoke all too much...