Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In a strong letter of protest to President Conant, Jerome Davis, president of the American Federation of Teachers, yesterday hit the Corporation for partial action in the Walsh-Sweezy dismissal.
Believing it would "increase the distrust now held by many" concerning the impartiality of the attitude a taken by college corporations in academic cases, Davis expressed the hope that Harvard might find some way to right the "great wrong" done to Drs. Walsh and Sweezy.
Last year Davis was ousted from the Yale Theological School, where he was an instructor, allegedly for his political views. At the time ex-President Angell of Yale received much condemnation from liberals and liberal publications over the country.
"THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL-"-Clyde Brion Davis-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50).
A solemn sap, scrawny, cartoon-faced Homer Zigler was a 23-year-old, $1-a-week cub reporter on a Buffalo newspaper when he decided to become a novelist. But first, said Homer, "to the purpose of preparing myself for that career," he would keep a journal. "The Great American...