Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand the $2,000,000 gift of Gloveman Lucius Nathan Littauer for a Graduate School of Public Administration (TIME, Dec. 23), he dashed off with the other an appeal for Harvard's Three Hundredth Anniversary Fund. The Fund will be used partly for fat, new scholarships, partly to establish University Professorships. The "roving professors" may work where they choose, breaking down the artificial barriers between fields. Rich Harvardmen were invited to give $25,000 for a scholarship. Very rich Harvardmen were invited to put up $500,000 to found a University Professorship. Last week Thomas William Lament...
...Lindberghs had secretly obtained passports in Washington a week in advance, slipped away from the Morrow home in Englewood, N. J. with farewells only to the immediate family. The only passengers aboard their ship, they were now bound for England to establish a home which might be permanent. They had been driven to this decision by mounting threats to kidnap or kill Son Jon. They had chosen England because they believed the English to be the world's most law-abiding people. Their chief aim was to give Jon a normal childhood. Colonel Lindbergh, though he might become...
...know that the church has ever done much to keep the world out of war. I think now for the first time the Christian conscience has been troubled about war in principle. . . . It is likely there will have to be one more great conflict in Europe to definitely establish once & for all an international authority. This conflict will be the most horrible of horribles and possibly this generation will be called on to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives.'' William Ebor,* as he signs his letters to the London Times, is an enlightened, erudite divine...
Since Maurois has frequently been hailed as the carrier of the tradition of Lytton Strachey, his portrait of that biographer is the most revealing in Prophets and Poets. He quotes enough of Strachey's witty and unexpected prose to establish convincingly the difference between the master's light touch and his own methodical, hard-working style. The sketch ends with an account of Maurois' meeting with Strachey: "On the first day we were alarmed by his tall, lanky frame, his long beard, his immobility, his silence; but when he spoke ... it was in delightful, economical epigrams...
...loudly heralded new Warner musical, "Stars Over Broadway" achieves one rather definite end. It introduces to the movie-going public a leading favorite of the air-lines, James Melton whose personality and really fine tenor voice will probably establish him as the next serious contender for the crown now worn by that perennial juvenile. Dick Powell. Melton's face conforms to no known standards for eminence in the screen world but his voice registers superbly, and all in all he is a definite addition to the Warner...