Word: denison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JOHN H. DENISON...
...these assistants President Roosevelt last week added a third. Charles H. West was a teacher of political science at Denison University when in 1930 he was elected to the House from Ohio. He proved able and was placed on the Ways & Means Committee. Last summer his promising career was cut short when the New Deal picked him as a candidate to run in the Democratic primaries for Senator in Ohio. After Alvin Victor ("Vic") Donahey had handily carried off the honors, the New Deal gratefully found Charles West an $8,000 job as assistant to Governor William I. Myers...
Died. Charles Denison Holmes, 64, Wartime inventor of high-powered motors for submarine chasers, mobile artillery and tanks; after long illness (arthritis); in Mystic, Conn. For his services he received last month from President Roosevelt a letter of thanks which, because he was nearly blind, had to be read...
...following centers were represented: Avon Home, Burroughs Newsboys Foundation, Cambridge Y.M.C.A., Denison House, Elizabeth Peabody House, Ellis Memorial, Hecht House, Lincoln House, Norfolk House, North Bennet Street Industrial School, North End Union, the Red Cross, Robert Gould Shaw House, South End House, and South Boston Neighborhood House...
...after despair and suffering. From Rev. John Haynes Holmes they heard that contemporary civilization is collapsing, although it has produced four great men: Einstein, Freud, Lenin, Gandhi. Northern Baptists numbering 3,500 met in Rochester, N. Y. As their new president they elected Dr. Avery Albert Shaw, president of Denison University in Granville, Ohio and president of the Baptist Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board. The convention voted to merge its diffuse budgets and to combine separate education boards, but it rejected a proposal to unify four foreign missions societies, fearing that Modernists might get control and send out Modernist missionaries...