Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nice plump young man with a booming voice, a repetitive tongue and a Southern accent is George E. Allen, one of the three Commissioners of the District of Columbia. He was born in Booneville, Miss. His good friend, Senator Pat Harrison, got him his job. Long a hotelman, he became vice president and general manager of the Wardman Real Estate Properties, Inc. in Washington...
...Moley. Three generations of Moleys have lived in or near Berea. From his native Berea went Raymond Moley to profess politics in Cleveland's Western Reserve University, to direct the Cleveland Foundation, to investigate crime in Ohio and in New York, to profess government and public law at Columbia University, to be Franklin Delano Roosevelt's chief economic adviser, his chief Braintruster. his Assistant Secretary of State. Today Mr. Moley is editor of Today and still a potent factor at the White House. Meanwhile at rustic, somnolent Berea one Moley sister married Superintendent T. R. Barnum of Cleveland...
...Nazi State is encroaching not only upon German student life but upon German scholarship. History, psychology, philosophy and biology, subjects in which German pedagogs have long excelled, are now warped in the teaching to square with the notions of Nazi "pure race" preachers. Said Dr. George S. Counts, Columbia Professor of Education, last week: "In the eyes of the world graduation from German universities no longer carries with it the honor that it did prior to the rise of Hitler...
...years ago Columbia University psychologists took charge of a brace of identical twin boys the moment they were born to irregularly employed Manhattan parents. As a scientific experiment in deportment development Johnny was to be "conditioned" by special training and exercises whereas Jimmy was to be allowed to grow up naturally. By last winter Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw had 19-month-old Johnny boldly swimming, diving, climbing, jumping, roller-skating-accomplishments far beyond the ability of untrained Jimmy (TIME...
Thirtyfour, Jewish and a lawyer, David Saperstein is one New Dealer who did not receive his inspiration from Felix Frankfurter and the Harvard Law School. From Columbia he returned across the Hudson to his home town of Union City, N. J., where he soon entered the firm of Platoff, Saperstein & Platoff. The Platoffs and the Sapersteins were old neighbors in suburban Weehawken. Mr. Pecora took him to Washington as his chief assistant in the Senate Banking & Currency Committee investigation. David Saperstein used to play semi-pro baseball, now loves poker and the writing of unpublished plays...