Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That statement, uttered early in the proceedings by Chairman Harold M. Wilkie. seemed to express the basic point of Governor Philip La Follette of Wisconsin, whose board of regents met last week in Madison to vote finally on the dismissal of Glenn Frank as president of the University of Wisconsin. All but four of the 15 regents had been appointed by Governor La Follette. When nine of them voted for an open hearing on Chairman Wilkie's charges against him, filed at last month's regents' meeting (TIME, Dec. 28), Dr. Frank knew he had only...
...York Bar Association to elect temporary local Guild officers. Looking down from their gilt frames, first U. S. Chief Justice John Jay and 19 past presidents of the Bar Association beheld a scene of fine parliamentary confusion, as scores of pent-up legal spirits strug gled to express themselves. In a two-hour session, highlighted by a plea "to call in a few lawyers" to restore order, Paul Kern, Manhattan Civil Service Commissioner, was elected president, two steering committees were appointed to act until the national convention...
United's crash was the last of a series in recent weeks which has the whole U. S. aviation world in a tumult. Until a month ago there had been only four major crashes of scheduled U. S. airliners in 1936. Then, on Dec. 15. a Western Air Express Boeing vanished in Utah with seven aboard. On Dec. 18 a Northwest Air Lines Lockheed vanished with two pilots, but no passengers, aboard. Last week the Boeing was still lost, but the Lockheed had been found, buried in the snow near Kellogg, Idaho, with both men dead...
...commander asserted that no other gift could express Harvard affection for the Governor as well as a Jackson hole orchid. He added that everything from a "gardenia to a hamburger" had been considered...
...first issue of the "Twelve Twenty-Five Express" contains an article by Robert C. Benchley, a member of the Class, as well as cartoons by his son, Nathaniel G. Benchley '38. Benchley's article, entitled "Sobering Statistics" is a satire on the articles of John Tunis '11, which appeared last year, criticizing the record of the Class...