Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summary: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Merry, Adzigian, lf. lf., Bonniwell, Kirvitsky, Cahn Grady, Ernst, Jones, rf. rf., Edwards, Dickinson, Cleaveland Boys, c. c., Miller, McKernan Comfort, Fletcher, rg. rg., Stangle, Davis Ferriter, Henderson, lg. lg., Kraszewski, Hubbell., Levis...
...Last week the President set up another potent governmental special bureau: the Executive Commercial Policy Committee. Purpose: to supervise negotiations of all commercial treaties, such as are now anticipated between the U. S. and Sweden, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Russia. Personnel: Walter J. Cummings (Treasury); Assistant Secretary Dickinson and Dr. Willard Thorp (Commerce); Assistant Secretary Tugwell (Agriculture); General William I. Westervelt (AAA); Oscar B. Ryder (NRA); Commissioners O'Brien and Page (Tariff Commission). Chairman pro tempore is Undersecretary of State Philipps...
...American scene from the standpoint of the proletarian oppressed by a capitalist society. Throughout the book Mr. Hicks reasons from this premise, not toward it. That literature can have any other attributes which gives it a right to live he will not admit. Consequently Mark Twain, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather, Eugene O'Neill are, though grudgingly praised for artistry or insight, consigned to limbo for inadequacy...
...post-war men of letters are held up for scrutiny and found wanting. Each failed to realize the task before him, or realizing it, fled from it. The sectionalists, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Eggleston and Cable, did not comprehend the whole. The fugitives, Sarah, Orne Jewett, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, sought sanctuary in trifling worlds of their own. William Dean Howells sounded the right note, but was too limited in experience and ability to be successful. The genteel writers of the nineties merely catered to bourgeois prejudices. Then came the years of hope, the years of progressivism and the muckrakers...
Stock Exchange. Meantime the President had under way his own investigation of the New York Stock Exchange-an investigation conducted by a committee consisting of Professor John Dickinson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Undersecretary of the Treasury Dean Acheson, Braintruster Adolf Augustus Berle Jr., and Arthur Dean of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. Their purpose: not to drag scandal to public view but to see how the Exchange's merits balance its demerits, to recommend under what form it should be allowed to continue to exist...