Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emergency Relief Act appropriations of 1935. Professor Ogburn's subcommittee was told off to appraise current technological trends and their probable impact on society. This group included President Frank Rattray Lillie of the National Academy of Sciences, President John Campbell Merriam of the Carnegie Institution, President Edward Charles Elliott of Purdue University, a handful of economists, educators and one mathematician. The subcommittee admitted that "invention is a great disturber," but also agreed with the defenders of Science that it creates new industries, new reservoirs of employment. Professor Ogburn suggested that if in 1900 the U. S. had had national...
...Robert Elliott Freer, the baby of the commission (41), oversees the FTC's Economic Division. Mr. Freer, also a Roosevelt appointee, went to FTC from ICC via the Federal Railroad Coordinator's office...
...decade Dr. Ewing has declared that with six $10,000,000 institutes, scientists could soon control cancer. Nearest approach to that, before last week's gift, was $2,000,000 which Steelmaker William Henry Donner of Philadelphia, transient father-in-law of Elliott Roosevelt, gave for an International Cancer Research Foundation (TIME, June 20, 1932). Before that the biggest cancer war chest was the $1,400,000 of the George Crocker Institute for Cancer Research, which Dr. Francis Carter Wood manages at Columbia University...
Love Story. The U. S. Public, which followed with unanimous interest (and mixed emotions) the two divorces and two remarriages (Anna's and Elliott's) in which the President's children participated during his first term, became aware in April 1934 that Franklin and Ethel du Pont were companions. The discovery was inescapable because the pair was attending a wrestling match in Philadelphia and Franklin, objecting to being photographed at the ringside, made a flying tackle at the Ledger's photographer and smashed his camera. "This man was taking a photograph of me," explained Franklin...
Eight hundred and fifty grumbling New Yorkers crowded the sidewalk outside the Maxine Elliott Theatre one night last week. Inside actors and singers were telephoning anyone they could think of who might help them get permission from the U. S. Government to open the theatre and put on one of the most ambitious productions the WPA has attempted. Permission never came...