Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When we saw part of the literary flotsam cast up by last weekend's inundation of the Advocate Building's cellar we were again reminded of how poor a navigator was Miss Emily Dickinson. "There is no frigate like a book," wrote she with, to be sure, great joy but with little sensitivity for the nuances of wet lambskin...
After President Edward Dickinson Duffield of Prudential Insurance Co. consented, as a loyal, energetic alumnus and trustee, to act as Princeton's president ad interim (TIME, May 30, 1932), the Princeton trustees continued to search the field and their feelings for a permanent successor to Dr. John Grier Hibben. Names mentioned ranged all the way from Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover down through a roster of eminent Princeton alumni to handsome young James Henderson Douglas, class of 1920, who made a name for himself as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the March banking crisis. When the trustees...
...long days and nights Senator Wagner, Democratic expert on unemployment relief legislation, had been working over a National Recovery Act with Budget Director Douglas, Secretary of Labor Perkins, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Dickinson and other members of the "Brain Trust." Their White House instructions were to combine in one measure a broad program for public works to make new jobs and the "partnership" idea for Federal supervision of industrial production, prices, wages and working hours as enunciated by the President in his broadcast fortnight ago. The bill would be the Administration's substitute for the crude null and minimum...
...Other appointments made by the President last week: John Dickinson of Pennsylvania to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Lawrence Wood Robert Jr. of Georgia to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
TIME'S statement under Education in the March 27 issue, "The eighth consideration, new to non-Nebraskans was 'M-mm,' " occasioned considerably more amazement in the Wampus editorial office than either the earthquake or Professor Dickinson's mathematical capers of 1932. "Mmm" and the contest TIME had reference to were the none too healthy brain-childs of one Charles E. Van Landingham, Wampus editorial staff member and campus news sleuth at the University of Southern California...