Word: finley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After six days of exciting chases, during which more than 25 foxes were run to cover, the judges named Jack Trouble, owned by Finley & Douglas of York, S. C., winner of the Chase Futurity, picked Hawkeye Stacey, owned by Arch Stacey of Jackson, Ky., as winner...
...indictment of the New York Times for the biased way they thought it handled the Russian revolution. Time brings all things. Mr. Lippmann is now an editorial keystone on the conservative New York Herald Tribune. Last week Charles Merz was made successor to 75-year-old Dr. John Huston Finley as editor of the conservative New York Times, in charge of the editorial page...
...Finley. who took over the editorship in April 1937 after 16 years as associate editor, is an inveterate worker, talker, walker (he once walked 70 miles in one day, till this year annually circumambulated Manhattan), degree-taker (he has 31 honorary degrees, 21 LL.D.s). Of late he has been ill and Charles Merz has been filling in. Last week, with the Merz promotion. Dr. Finley was made editor emeritus...
...Finley opened the debate with a ten-minute argument in which he emphasized the value of a classical education, which takes an objective view of the whole span of modern events with an eye to classical parallel situations. He also asserted that the classical writers treated of the general phases of human endeavor and that since our modern civilization is based on cold fact, we need the classics as a balance...
...Finley's colleague, Roosevelt, stated later in the debate, "We are the slaves of facts, and the classics are our only liberators. The humanities are expelled by the sciences. The study of the social sciences has corrupted the classics. History has gone entirely economic...