Word: fawcetts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, most popular course in the school and required for all juniors and seniors. Called The Nature of Proof, this course is intended to promote critical thinking, differs from the usual study of logic by being entirely practical. It is taught by shock-haired, Canadian-born Dr. Harold Pascoe Fawcett. Dr. Fawcett starts with an ex planation of the principles of Euclidean geometry, goes on to show his students that every conclusion depends on assumptions and definitions, and, when correct, follows a concise mathematical pattern. His pupils then analyze speeches, political plat forms, advertising, riddle them full of holes...
...automobiles, he proceeded to sell them U. S. stocks, became a partner in G.M.-P. Murphy's New York Stock Exchange firm and took charge of G.M.-P. Murphy's London branch. He has now resigned from Murphy's, joined the London firm of Williamson, Fawcett & Stirling...
Throughout the picture the acting is excellent. Miss Faye is enchanting as Belle Fawcett, a sort of nineteenth century chorus girl. Mr. Power is surprisingly modern and very real as a combination politician and saloon-keeper, and Mr. Ameche, in a simpler part, is satisfactory. "In Old Chicago" is well acted, masterfully directed, and provides first-rate entertainment...
Last week, however, thrice-married W. H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett of True Confessions and Bernarr Macfadden of True Story were doing plenty about it in one of the nastiest newsstand fights since the two were at each other's throats...
...True Confessions has been growing at a great rate for two years, pushing above the million mark. True Story has also grown, to 2,300,000, is a big Macfadden moneymaker. When it learned that Mr. Fawcett had managed a publicity tie-up with Paramount on Carole Lombard's picture True Confession, Mr. Macfadden's True Story looked briskly to its circulation laurels. True Confessions, with $15,000 spent in exploitation, ordered several hundred thousand more February copies than it had been selling, put them on sale December 24, six days early. But by last week Mr. Fawcett...