Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican platform was written between the deep sea and Senator Borah. The deep sea was Lake Erie and Senator Borah was the man who, as he left the Republican convention last week, announced: "I never had any illusion that I would become the Presidential nominee of this convention. But there were some important and timely questions which I felt should come before the country . . . and I reached the conclusion that this could be most likely attained if I became a candidate...
Between Senator Borah and the deep sea was William Allen White, the Landon representative on the Resolutions Committee. The Landonites wished to placate Mr. Borah, lest he somehow upset their well-laid nomination plans. Well did they know how to proceed. Since Senator Borah, for all his noble traits of character, would never willingly become a member of the Twelve Apostles or of any group larger than one, he could be won to Landon only by giving him some unique privilege. That privilege was to speak with ultimate authority on those planks which most appealed...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS: DOCTOR OF LAWS, of Chicago, President of the University of Chicago since 1929. "A daring educational administrator whose keen weapons from the armory of the past out deep into the academic complacency of the present...
...graduate schools. It set up a Provost to conduct the faculty's business with the Administration, established a single board of admissions and a common freshman year, with a separate freshman faculty, for "Sheff" and "Ac." Simple and sensible though these reforms seemed to outsiders, they cut deep into Yale's vital fabric of traditions, left a mass of supersensitive and unsutured ganglions. At that point, Yale's Grand Old Man, Arthur Twining Hadley, resigned the Presidency, thus leaving Yale not only suffering from postoperative shock, but without an attendant...
Tall, burly, deep-voiced Roswell Gray Ham is 45, married, has two sons. Before receiving a captain's commission in the Wartime Marine Corps, he had taught at University of Washington and University of California. After the War he went to Yale's Graduate School, has been a mem ber of Yale's English Department since 1920. When he goes to his new post in September 1937, after President Woolley officiates at next year's centenary celebra tion, Mount Holyoke girls can expect a change in presidential speaking fare. President-elect Ham's specialty...