Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cities bought West Tennessee Power & Light Co.'s distributing facilities; 3) in Collier's, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes predicted the doom of privately owned utilities if they continued their "blind and headstrong course"; 4) the Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., accusing that big holding company of "conspiring to monopolize" the natural gas industry in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and West Virginia...
Irwin Edman was 21 when he began teaching philosophy at Columbia University. On the campus one day shortly afterwards he met his old professor, Felix Adler. "What are you doing now?" inquired the professor. "Teaching," said Edman. "Teaching what?" "Philosophy," said Edman. The old man patted the open-faced, blond youth on the back. "How cute!" he said...
...Edman was made a full Professor of Philosophy. Now 41, and one of Columbia's most popular professors, he is also credited, through his writings, with an increased attendance in philosophy courses at other colleges as well. As a teacher of philosophy he no longer runs the risk of being called cute. As a philosopher in his own right, he might still tempt some old philosopher...
...essays devoted to "persons and places, many of them obscure, about which I have occasionally told my friends over a glass of sherry. . . ." Son of a shirt & blouse manufacturer, Philosopher Edman still lives in the neighborhood where he was born and brought up, a stone's throw from Columbia University. He has "spent a long life" in Carnegie Hall and art galleries, writes light topical verse, travels much in Europe, wears thick glasses, has a bad stomach, and in general exhibits the intellectual precocity, the urbane humor, the tastes and the slightly nervous detachment which seem as native...
...Abernathy, Jr. '41 of Oak Park, Illinois; John D. Adams '39, of West Brattleboro, Vermont; Arthur B. Allen '41, of Charleston, West Virginia; David L. Anderson '41, of Portland, Oregon; Walter J. bate '39, of Richmond, Indiana; David W. Ballard '39, of Peterborough, New Hampshire; Fred Benyamin '41, of Columbia, South Carolina; Robert L. Berg '40, of Spokane, Washington; Charles P. Berger Jr. '41, of Jackson, Michigan; George F. Bogardus '39 of Des Moines, Iowa...