Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week the Students' Directorate sat in conference arguing, gesticulating, issuing orders for the Grau San Martin Cabinet to put into effect. Nobody questioned their patriotism or their sincerity. They served without pay, swore to accept no government posts, but it was as though the Social Problems Club of Columbia University had taken over the U. S. Government and was telling a puppet cabinet what...
Brief Moment (Columbia) exhibits the difficulties that attend the marriage of an intelligent night club hostess to a wealthy ne'er-do-well. Abby Fane (Carole Lombard) marries Roderick Deane (Gene Raymond) with a very clear idea of what his family's reaction will be. In the course of a prolonged honeymoon, she acquires culture, fashionable boredom, a suspicion that her husband is more stupid than she thought at first. He enjoys being sponged on by his friends, particularly approves of a languid professional punster named Harold Sigrift (Monroe Owsley). Abby badgers Roderick into going to work...
Almost as vigorous a sentinel over Press rights as Editor Marlen Pew of Editor & Publisher is Dean Carl William Ackerman of Columbia University's School of Journalism. Last week Dean Ackerman made his annual report to President Nicholas Murray Butler, told him that the Press had averted a U. S. dictatorship under NRA; that General Johnson, unable to control newspaper editorials, had used Radio and Cinema, more complaisant organs, toward that...
Lady for a Day (Columbia) is a Broadway sob story, highly effective because in it sentiment is used mainly as a springboard for comedy. Its heroine is a quaintly incredible old woman who sells apples on a Manhattan corner, guzzles too much gin, and corresponds with her daughter, whom she is sending to a Spanish convent, on the stationery of an expensive hotel. Apple Annie (May Robson) finds herself in a dilemma when her daughter (Jean Parker) writes to say that she has become engaged to a young Spanish grandee and that she is bringing him and his father, Count...
...convention of the American Psychological Association. Her gayety was refreshing there. For the psychologists were squabbling about the Psychological Corporation. Dr. James McKeen Cattell, 73, pioneer U. S. psychologist, formed Psychological Corp. twelve years ago. This was one of several mixtures of scholarship and business which he developed after Columbia University forced his resignation from the faculty on account of his outspoken pacifism. Dr. Cattell is currently chairman of Psychological Corp.'s directors. Professor Edward Lee Thorndike, Columbia psychologist, is president. Many another academic psychologist belongs to Psychological Corp. and earns extra money from its activities. Significant among those...