Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the retirements of Chief Justice George Ewing Martin and Associate Justice Charles H. Robb opened two vacancies recently in the venerable U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Washington correspondents have been energetically spreading the rumor that one of them was destined for angular, friendly Chairman Fred Moore Vinson of the House Ways & Means sub-Committee on Taxation. Last week Franklin Roosevelt obligingly confirmed the rumor by issuing a batch of appointments upping 64-year-old Justice D. Lawrence Groner to be chief justice, naming as associate justices Cornell Law Professor Henry W. Edgerton...
...Administration wheelhorse still quietly loyal to the New Deal, 47-year-old Kentuckian Vinson acquired an equally unflagging love for fiscal problems. He need renounce neither in his new job, since the District of Columbia court spends much of its time on Government tax litigation brought before it by the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals, and is a place where the New Deal can well use a sincere friend. For his part Fred Vinson, who remembers his defeat by the Hoover landslide in 1928 after three terms in the House, appreciated as fully as any seasoned campaigner the security...
Only a decade ago Sibelius' cold water was considered a drink for connoisseurs to sip. But of late the public taste for his invigorating music has reached the proportions of thirsty demand. In 1935 a poll of the Columbia Broadcasting System's U. S. and Canadian listeners gave him first place in popularity (Beethoven was second) among all composers, past and present. This autumn Manhattan's Radio City MusicHall Conductor Erno Rapee unhesitatingly undertook to broadcast Sibelius' entire set of seven symphonies. The Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra play them far oftener than the once-popular...
...Columbia University's unorthodox New College, an undergraduate teacher-training school, believes that teachers-to-be should taste life's dishes. It sends its students out to run farm and community activities among Carolina hillbillies, to study industry in factories, to travel in Europe. Last week New College's head, sharp-faced Dr. Thomas Alexander, went a step farther. Although most U. S. school officials expect their teachers to stay out of politics and economic conflicts. Dr. Alexander announced his college would award scholarships next term to the two students who had been most active politically...
Climax of the two-day session will come this afternoon at 3 o'clock when the Columbia Broadcasting System will carry the results of the Conference to the public. At this time speeches will be made by Nathaniel Peffer, professor at Columbia, Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, William, Hancock '38, and Senator Ernest Lundeen, speaking from Washington...