Word: elmer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less important than Babbitt or Arrowsmith, kinder and more accurate than Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth is as shrewd a piece of reporting as any of the earlier volumes. No scoop, it has a pale prelude in Tarkington's Plutocrat, but Dodsworth is the exhaustive definitive edition...
Last week Composer Deems Taylor confirmed the rumor (TIME, Feb. 25) that his new, Metropolitan-commissioned opera would be based on Street Scene, a play by Elmer Rice, now successful on Broadway. Street Scene is about tenement life...
...Billings Kellogg (who will continue as Secretary of State until the arrival of Henry Lewis Stimson) took reserved seats well forward. The Chief moved up to the rose-decked reading stand among the microphones. Chief Justice Taft, in black robes and skullcap, moved to his side. Supreme Court Clerk Elmer Cropley handed the Chief Justice a small, new Bible, ribboned to Matthew 5 (The Sermon on the Mount). It was really raining...
...Died. Elmer Schlesinger, 48, of Manhattan, Jewish lawyer (Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy), longtime Chicagoan, onetime vice president and general counsel of the U. S. Shipping Board; of heart disease; while golfing in Aiken, S. C. Lawyer Schlesinger was the husband of onetime Countess Eleanor Patterson Gizycka, Chicago Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson's sister. He was a director of the Patterson publications (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Liberty Magazine). He was divorced from Halle Schaffner of Chicago, daughter of Founder Joseph Schaffner of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, tailors...
Many a famed U. S. educator has sat in the office which Dr. Cooper now occupies. The first was Henry Barnard whose fame in his native Connecticut equals that of Horace Mann in Massachusetts. Other onetime Education Commissioners are Dr. Elmer Brown, Chancellor of New York University; Dr. Philander Priestly Claxton, now Superintendent of Schools in Tulsa, Okla...