Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the National Academy of Sciences, most select of national scientific bodies, gathered in Washington to elect 14 new members, make Dean Frank Ratray Lillie of the University of Chicago's Division of Biological Sciences its new president, read some 50 papers. Newsworthy discussions...
Schirmer has been one of the leaders in the National Students League and is on the board of their paper, the Student News. Dennett has been a member of the Liberal Club for the last two years, was chairman of the student conference on government, and is president-elect of the Phillips Brooks House
...many pies. Ask who is the greatest potential force and they will say Jack Neylan. As to whether his power is for good or evil, answers will agree only in their superlatives. To New Dealers he is the "most dangerous" enemy in the land. (After the 1932 election he quickly turned on the Brain Trust denouncing its members as an "intellectual awkward squad.") To left-wing Labor he is the "most dangerous" of Conservatives. (He, more than any other one man broke the general strike in San Francisco last summer.) To followers of Senator Hiram Johnson he is the "most...
...Negroes took a searching look last week at President-elect Patterson. Rich and famed though Tuskegee is, what the Negro Press calls "race men" are sharply divided on the merits of the vocational type of education it offers. Booker Washington founded the Institute "to put brains and skill into the common occupations of life." Raw, gangling black boys go to Tuskegee from all over the South. They work on and around the campus to pay for their keep and the small tuition: $31 for students in the high school department, $52 for those in the college. When they leave Tuskegee...
...that will not recommend it to more academic historians, Ordeal by Fire has no theory to grind, parades its swift narrative of the war years in a series of graphic scenes. It opens in the dingy bridal suite of a Philadelphia hotel in February 1861, with Lincoln, the President-elect, listening to Detective Pinkerton's warnings of the plot to assassinate him as he passes through Baltimore next day. The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail. While the war was still only imminent, many...