Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like an oldtime anti-slavery meeting in the New Jersey Assembly chamber at Trenton one day last week. The crowd whooped and hissed, not quite aware where its humanitarian instincts ceased and where its sectional fervor began. Georgia had come to take Robert Elliott Burns back to one of its notorious chain gangs. Almost everybody in New Jersey thought he had a good idea of what a chain gang was like. The case of Arthur Maillefert, 22-year-old New Jersey boy who died last summer in a Florida sweatbox, was fresh in mind (TIME, Oct. 24). Radio and Press...
...film currently horrifying U. S. audiences is I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, taken from a successful autobiography of almost like title* written by Robert Elliott Burns. Last week the fugitive was a fugitive no longer. Author Burns was apprehended in Newark. He had been running a toy shop in East Orange. His arrest aroused national interest, stirred up two issues: a general one on the question of crime & punishment, a specific legal one between Georgia and New Jersey...
Delegations representing 17 different countries will convene in the New Lecture Hall tonight at 7.30 o'clock for the second meeting of the Harvard League of Nations, which was founded last spring by Peregrine White '33, with the aid of W. Y. Elliott, professor of Government. D. H. Wills 2G has been chosen as speaker for the winter session of the Assembly...
President Dr. John R. Mott, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer and Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling were each mentioned as possible next president of the Federal Council. But most people were sure last week that another man had already been slated for the job-Dr. Albert William Beaven, 50. president of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School in Rochester, onetime (1930-31) president of the Northern Baptist Convention...
...signs-THIS SHOW HAS BEEN DISINFECTED; the familiar sights & sounds-miles of red bunting, polo players in bright blue hats, stolid farmers' boys in overalls, svelte geldings, grunting swine, bleating sheep, sleepy steers annoyed at constant currying. Judge Biggar saw familiar faces among the exhibitors-23 year-old Elliott Brown of Rose Hill, Iowa, to whose steer he had awarded the grand prize three years ago; Gentleman Farmer Oakleigh Thorne of Dutchess County. N. Y., to whom he had awarded the prize last year and who had with him Grandson Oakleigh Thorne II, now a young gentle man farmer...