Word: elmer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such beliefs identify Mr. Coolidge with the well-to-do Man in the Street, but aside from merits thus appropriate to a democratic state, they have little value. They ignore scores of shamefully protracted trials, and they give the abstract lie to scores of meaningful psychological statistics. Harry Elmer Barnes may go on believing that the last twenty-five years have given man more knowledge of this problem than the preceding two thousand. The Thomas Mott Oshornes of America may yet succeed in making the prison punitive rather than corrective. But as long as men of Mr. Coolidge's eminence...
...perfection of spirit underlying all a man's acts, private and public. Shy to a painful degree, Mr. Mellon is nevertheless noted for his courage. His integrity, of course, is beyond question. Memorable illustrations of these two qualities were the swift ejection from the Treasury in 1922 of Elmer Dover, Ohio Gangster, and Secretary MelIon's long stand-up fights on the Internal Revenue Bureau with hard-hitting Senator Couzens of Michigan...
...very clearly marked thoroughfare for American letters. But under the ruling hierarchy of Dreiser, Mencken, Robinson, and Anderson, Mr. Munson finds an approaching aridity that fresh blood must eventually dispel. And so, in the present volume, with a respectful acknowledgement of the critical importance of Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More, and an estimation of Dreiser, Robinson, and Lindsay, he attempts, in a series of essays on Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, William Williams, Kenneth Burke, Hart Crane, and Jean Toomer, to resolve the future. Mr. Munson writes these appreciations with un- derstanding, but in a workable argot, at once colloquial...
...Elected. Elmer T. McCleary, expert steelmaking vice president of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.; to be president of the Republic Iron & Steel Co.; to succeed Thomas J. Bray, resigned...
During the year, the print department received a notable addition in the form of a fifteenth-century Venetian woodblock, a gift of Elmer Adler '22. A large number of prints were donated to the Museum's collection, strengthening weak spots in the assortment...