Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with male colleagues is: "Don't disagree with men unless it's necessary. You can have your own way without antagonizing them." Prior to succeeding the late Labor Chairman, Massachusetts' Congressman William Patrick Connery Jr., Mrs. Norton was chairwoman of the House's District of Columbia Committee, the unofficial "Mayor of Washington...
...smooths ruffled Congressmen by such disarming state ments as: "But I don't know a thing about economics!" This is her new post as chairwomen of the Committee on Election of the President she may suddenly get something to do before long was suggested last week by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler who prophesied in London that in 1940 there will be four Presidential candidates deadlocked, possibly throwing the vote for President into the House...
...Columbia University (New York...
University of Missouri (Columbia...
...Lawrence University (Canton, N. Y.). Columnist Thompson was the commencement speaker at all three colleges. Abreast with her for first place on the 1937 kudos list was solemn Critic Van Wyck Brooks, whose Pulitzer Prizewinner, The Flowering of New England, brought him Litt.D.'s from Bowdoin, Columbia and Tufts. Vassar's Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay got a Litt.D. from Colby, an L.H.D. from New York University. Two LL.D.'s apiece went to Cordell Hull (University of Pennsylvania and Yale), New York's Special Racket Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey (Tufts and the University of Michigan...