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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To Victorians for 50 years the career of six-foot, black-eyed, hot-headed Sir Richard Francis Burton seemed more fabulous than anything discovered, by present-day readers in T. E. Lawrence. But to plain readers today his name means next to nothing. Now, 30 years after the last serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unvictorian Victorian | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

The Dublin through which Gogarty takes his sometimes headlong but not always straightforward course is peopled with queer, usually delightful characters, many of them transatlantically famed. Francis Hackett, George Moore, AE, William Butler Yeats, many a lesser fish swim through the bright underwater of Gogarty's world, and few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dublin Go Bragh! | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, emeritus, Honorary Judge for last night, was unable to attend. The three judges were Charles Francis Adams '88, Edward A. Taft '04, and Charles B. Gulick '90, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lee Wade Prize in Public Speaking Won With Borah's Anti-Court Change Speech | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

Judges who have been selected are: Charles Francis Adams '88, former Secretary of the Navy and now a member of the Board of Overseers; Dr. Elliott C. Cutler '09, President of the Associated Harvard Clubs; and Charles B. Gulick '90, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. Neil G. Malone '37, First...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPETITION FOR LEE WADE, BOYLSTON PRIZES TAKES PLACE TONIGHT | 3/31/1937 | See Source »

Rubber's Big Four annually make 91% of all the tires for U. S. automobiles. William Francis O'Neil's General Tire & Rubber Co. makes another 5%, with Lee, Dayton, Fisk, Seiberling, Mansfield and Pharis splitting the remainder. Total number of tires sold in 1936 was 58...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Caoutchouc Capers | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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