Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Breathless in pace and implications was the swooping Balkan air tour last week of autocratic German Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, whom closest friends call "Willy." In Vienna, Belgrade, Athens, Sofia and Budapest the Machiavellian doctor had fun insisting that he flew only to promote "economic peace." Just before he took off for Berlin, however, tactless Dr. Schacht could not resist blurting out what kind of economic peace he promotes. "Do creditor countries desire to renounce their claims against Germany?" he asked sharply. "If so they should say so, as Germany must either be allowed to earn...
...doctor had sat up all night in Vienna with ever-scheming Franz von Papen and Austrian financiers; he was greeted in Belgrade with an order for German heavy industrial products almost huge enough to wipe out the $8,000,000 Germany owes Yugoslavia; and in Athens the swashbuckling entourage of Premier General Metaxas said talk had all been of deals involving German aircraft, artillery and four destroyers for Greece. In Sofia there was a matter of some Bulgar credits in Germany now secretly liquidated in great part by German shipments of arms to Italy for which Italy paid Bulgaria...
...calls "Rainbow-Graphs." A firm believer in music as a religious force, Homer Rodeheaver lined up a number of young people in Korea, Japan and the Philippines in 1929, staked them to musical education in the U. S. One of these, a Korean who fortnight ago received a doctor's degree from Chicago Musical Dramatic Conservatory, changed his name to Rody Hyun in honor of his benefactor...
...citizens as yet unhonored. Then he invited readers to draw their own conclusions. Champions were Nicholas Murray Butler (34), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (28), Herbert Hoover (27), the New York Times's speechmaker, John Huston Finley (27). Dorothy Dix is an honorary Doctor of Letters and Marion Sayle Taylor (the "Voice of Experience") an honorary Doctor of Laws...
...honorary degree awarded to Massachusetts' Governor was Doctor of Oratory. It was awarded just after Governor Curley had signed a bill authorizing Staley College to grant Masters' degrees in Oratory...