Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early last week Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins was allotted $142,245,875 to hire 169,000 relief workers in New York City, Georgia, Alabama, Indiana and the District of Columbia. Same day, the House clipped President Roosevelt's so-called "death sentence" out of the Utilities Bill...
...Last year's N. E. A. convention dropped the stock squabble to unite on one proposition: the Federal Government should subsidize needy schools. Last week that issue was still near the top of the 12,000 teacherish minds at Denver. Keynoted Professor Jesse Homer Newlon of Teachers College, Columbia...
Such harmonious grumbling was not to last. Smart, left-wing Columbia professors were on hand to steer the convention head-on into a hotter issue: Academic Freedom. Keynoter Newlon and his colleagues made delegates feel that the abstract cause of Academic Freedom was their own concrete cause against arbitrary superintendents, corrupt school boards. Professor John Kelley Norton tickled fancies with a proposal that the nation's teachers unite with parents and workingmen of goodwill to hold the national balance of political power. In that Coughlinesque idea the scary Denver Post professed to see the birth of "the Pedagogic Party...
...Author. Born in Vienna in 1883, Ethnologist Lowie arrived in the U. S. at the age of 10, was educated at City College and Columbia, became associate curator at the American Museum of Natural History in 1913. A member of the staff of the American Anthropologist from 1912 to 1933, he served as its editor for nine years, has been professor of anthropology at the University of California since 1925. Of his twelve published volumes, five deal with the Crow Indians. Married two years ago, he now lives in Berkeley, Calif...
...learn that Miss Moore again proves more thoroughly equal to the task of impersonating a sensationally successful grand-opera star than she was to that of being one when she sang at London's Covent Garden before Queen Mary last month (TIME. June 24). Her voice which, in Columbia's recording of it, sounds better than any other in the cinema, is as good as usual. Her talent for light comedy makes the laborious convolutions of Victor Schertzinger's story seem almost enjoyable. Leo Carrillo croaks so amiably that he may hereafter head Hollywood's oversized...