Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fellowship of Reconciliation, with 10,000 U. S. members, became involved in doctrinaire controversy two years ago when a minority of its members favored fighting in the Class War. The National Council for Prevention of War has an able Washington lobbyist in Frederick Joseph Libby. Last autumn it sought contributions by means of a $1,000,000 "issue" of "peace bonds." The issue did not go well, although one anonymous woman bought $69,000 worth. The World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches seeks to promote world harmony by international exchanges of pastors. It recently heckled the Pope...
...that group of stage-struck youngsters, whom in the early 1930's Princeton sent into show business by way of the Triangle Club and Theatre Intime. He set Carrie Nation, stage-managed the Guild's Both Your Houses and in 1934 landed a Guggenheim Fellowship to investigate the Russian theatre. To prepare himself for his observations he learned Russian before he crossed the Red border...
...works, a biography of Moses Colt Tyler, and a study of American and French Culture (1750-1848). He has also translated Heine's "The North Sen" and edited the Poems of Edgar Allen Poe and Plays of the Restoration and the 18th Century. At present he holds a Guggenheim Fellowship to do research work for a biography of Tom Moore...
...show" Mechau returned at length to Denver, won a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the artistic and historic background of the West, and was given his first one-man show by the Denver Junior League. With his brother Vaughan, Artist Mechau is at present working on an illustrated history of the Pony Express. Frank Mechau hates to leave the house while working. "For the past four months," said he, "I never made a journey beyond the garbage...
...Daniel Mayer, the manager who started her on her career, made it his business to see that she read profitable books, helped her with her programs and her costumes, developed her taste. Absent also was Brother Vittorio, now a recognized composer studying in Italy on a Pix de Rome fellowship...