Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago this summer Franklin D. Roosevelt's constant confidant and companion was Columbia University's Professor Raymond Moley. Citizens who then saw their next President for the first time saw almost as often the sharp, shrewd features of "Ray" Moley, got the definite impression that most of the facts and theories which Nominee Roosevelt was expounding on the stump originated in the teeming Moley mind. On March 4, 1933 Dr. Moley went to Washington as Assistant Secretary of State, No. 1 Brain Truster and one of the new President's most potent and intimate advisers...
...these accusations frightened and fretful "Dodo" Farnsworth first replied: "It's a lot of hooey." So jittery he could barely stand erect, he finally pulled himself together long enough to be arraigned before a U. S. Commissioner and plead "not guilty." Held in the District of Columbia jail on $10,000 bail for a hearing next week, he disclosed his story...
...State Boards of Education so frame their course and credit requirements that many ordinary college graduates are promptly disqualified. That the normal school subsists on a realm of privileged technical training is the belief of many a U. S. educational observer. Last week Professor Benjamin De Kalbe Wood of Columbia University's Department of Educational Research reported a survey of normal schools that provided their critics with authoritative ammunition. Said...
President Winter also took a valedictory whack at Dentist Leroy L. Hartman of Columbia University, whose dental pain-killer created great hopes among patients, great consternation among dentists, who found that it did not always work (TIME, Feb. 3). Dr. Hartman last week told the A. D. A. all about Hartman's Solution, his method of applications, and the types of cavities it is suited for. Dr. Paul Wells of Chicago reported that of 23,000 patients treated, 30% felt no pain whatsoever after application of Hartman's Solution, 30% felt some pain, 40% gained no anesthesia whatsoever...
Meet Nero Wolfe (Columbia). If Author Rex Stout had determined not to let the cinema reproduce any of his American Magazine detective stories he could scarcely have invented a better hero than Nero Wolfe. Wolfe is so sedentary that he never ventures outdoors. His only hobby is growing orchids. Beer-guzzling has given him an enormous paunch. Thus deprived of action and sex appeal, Meet Nero Wolfe overcomes its handicaps surprisingly well, thanks to an effective performance by Edward Arnold and to the presence of Lionel Stander as Wolfe's dazed but tireless assistant...