Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...symbol proclaiming his superiority to other men. It must be out from banners and doubtless divorced from the deadly bookend, that its presence be a not too obvious prop of learning. As a substitute the Harvard arms is offered--the seal minus the circumferential lettering and the Christo et Ecclesiae, but the very shape itself must be altered from the round. What remains is a castrated version, devoid of all meaning and shorn of he grandeur of tradition...
...Guilty for not paying their employes code wages, not working them code hours? For not making proper code reports? For conspiring to do these things? A Federal Circuit Court of Appeals had held them guilty on 17 counts, innocent on only two concerning wages and hours (TIME, May 13 et ante). It was for the Supreme Court to decide finally whether the Schechters were guilty of breaking a real law or whether NRA was guilty of having regulated U. S. business for nearly two years under a false law, unconstitutional and invalid...
...humor." Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott of Dayton "wore her pearls and diamonds in her ears." "Miss Mary Elizabeth Rogan was a dainty charmer. . . ." Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson "was, as always, very distinguee." Mrs. Henry Probasco was "very Grande Dame." The Hinkle box was "a scene of constant va et vient." Mrs. E. W. Edwards' daughter was missed but "she, of course, is not going out if, any large way at present...
...commissioner to the Assembly was the bellwether of the Fundamentalists, Dr. J. Gresham Machen of Philadelphia, tried, convicted and suspended for disturbing the peace within his church (TIME, April 8 et ante). But he was in Cincinnati, leading the fight from the sidelines and in the newspapers with all the zeal of a man who has given his name to a movement. ("The issue," said onetime Moderator John McDowell, "is Presbyterianism v. Machenism.") Plump-faced, scholarly Dr. Machen last week saw Machenism trounced on the following fronts...
CHALLENGE TO DEATH-Viscount Cecil, Storm Jameson et al.-Button ($2). Fifteen British writers (among them: Rebecca West, Vera Brittain, Julian Huxley, J. B. Priestley, Edmund Blunden) inveigh against...