Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report to the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen on his mission in the Cumberlands, Pastor Smathers once wrote: "My vocation is practical action rather than philosophical reasoning." But that same report showed that "practical action" is only the outward and visible sign of his ministry. Said...
Edgar Lee Masters, whose Spoon River Anthology made U.S. literary history 30 years ago, and who was last in the news when he was found broke, ill and half-starved in Manhattan in 1944, won a high-timely $5,000 fellowship at 76. Donors: the Academy of American Poets. Observed Poet Masters, resting his way back to health in Charlotte, N.C.: "Poets in America find it hard even to make a living. I personally am very grateful." Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 28-year-old historian (The Age of Jackson), won a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a "political-intellectual history...
...consensus seems to be that the Trade Union Fellowship program in well-integrated and that it will be of great value to the men enrolled. In addition to seminar discussions, the following courses are among those scheduled: accounting, trade agreement administration, economics, management controls, problems arising under the Wagner Act, problems of dealing with government agencies, production management, productive organization and engineering, collective bargaining studies, and others...
...have completed grade school. The University desires unions to send men of intelligence and practical experience who are devoted to the labor movement and who expect to spend their careers in the service of labor. The best test of a man's qualifications, according to the Fellowship faculty, is a record of successful experience serving labor...
...Staff to Review the Work of the Trade Union Fellowship" was established to appraise the course and to suggest improvements where they were believed necessary...