Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what he meant by: "Chance has substituted itself for the anthropomorphic interpretation of history as a casual sequence." Columbia & Campaign. Not his personal characteristics but his social ideas were what made Dr. Tugwell an issue with the Senate. All his life he has been a voluble liberal. Senator Dickinson last week quoted to the Senate some Whitmanesque Tugwelliana, written by the young professor when he was 24. It began: I am strong, I am big and well-made, I am muscled and lean and nervous. . . . It ended: I am sick of a nation's stenches...
GOLDSWORTHY LOWES DICKINSON...
...President, not wanting to lose a second good man, hastily issued an executive order authorizing Assistant Secretary Dickinson to take over Dr. Thorp's job until a successor was named. This was a direct blow to Assistant Director Amory who would ordinarily have become acting director. A further blow followed when Dr. Dickinson removed all power over personnel from Mr. Amory, made himself guardian over one of the richest plum trees in Washington and defied hungry politicians to do their worst...
...Senator Dickinson: I hold no brief for Mr. Mellon, but I do object to this sort of persecution. It makes a criminal proceeding out of what the law intends to be a civil...
...tempest broke out in Times Square in 1931 when the prize went to Susan Glaspell's Alison's House, an unsuccessful biography of Emily Dickinson presented in a downtown theatre. Disregarded were such outstanding productions as Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Philip Barry (a top-flight playwright who has never received the prize), the sensationally hilarious Once in a Lifetime by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart and, presumably on the grounds that they were not "American," Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen and Grand Hotel...