Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Courtroom Obbligato (Sat. 7.30 p.m., CBS). Columbia Workshop sets Hilda Lawrence's night court stream of consciousness to Tom Bennett's music...
...than three of President Roosevelt's opponents in last year's battle over the Supreme Court-Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (Union College), Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler (American University, Washington, D. C.) and Wyoming's Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney (Columbia). Most outspoken was Columbia, braintrusters' hothouse but still run by G. O. Pundit Nicholas Murray Butler, which declared Senator O'Mahoney had "made his name memorable through an influential and guiding part in framing one of the now classic documents in the constitutional history...
Leader of the group was Columbia University's top-notch Chemist Harold C. Urey, discoverer of "heavy water." Other members included Vassar's President Henry Noble MacCracken, Cornell's ex-President Livingston Farrand, Harvard's Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, Columbia's William Heard Kilpatrick. They proposed that U. S. colleges give sanctuary and scholarships to the students fleeing the universities of the Fascist countries "because of their belief in democracy." They would be selected by the International Student Service, chosen for ability to make "a positive contribution to American life." Dr. Urey hoped that large...
...Harry Gideonse's rank still remained that of associate professor, his salary $5,500. Three times his colleagues recommended that he be appointed to a full professorship; three times President Hutchins ignored the recommendation. Last week Harry Gideonse quit the University of Chicago, accepted a,full professorship at Columbia. Said he: "There has been no personal quarrel between President Hutchins and me. . . . Dr. Hutchins and I have simply not seen eye to eye on educational policy. ... I expect to find a more congenial atmosphere at Columbia." The shocked Chicago faculty promptly adopted a resolution of "deep regret." President Hutchins...
...Lewis Carroll's, Ernest Walsh's and George Whitsett's poetry, Paul Hindemith's, Eric Satie's and Virgil Thomson's music, and lectures by Surrealists Andre Breton and Salvador Dali, Connoisseurs Thomas Dabney Mabry Jr. and Julien Levy from Columbia's Workshop to explain and illustrate surrealism. NBC counters an hour later with Roland Bradley's play about surrealism. (Sat. 8:30 p.m., Blue...