Word: gave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought venerable white-haired, deaf Charles Beard back to Columbia. Still peppery but now a pacifist, Dr. Beard last week was one of the most convinced and outspoken isolationists in the U. S. Accepting a job as visiting professor from President Nicholas Murray Butler, to whom he gave his resignation 22 years ago, Dr. Beard said: "What is past is past," began to teach a seminar of graduate students "The Concept of Democracy in American Political Thought...
...Philadelphia Press. Newsphotos had not yet been developed, and artists covered fires, parades, elections like reporters rushed back to do their drawings from notes or memory. In 1905 Sloan moved to Manhattan, settled in Greenwich Village as a book and magazine illustrator, etched and painted between commissions. His background gave Artist Sloan a taste for catching people in their unbuttoned moments, taught him it was no shame to tell stories in his pictures...
Twelve generations of Levinthals gave their people rabbis, the last two of them Bernard Louis Levinthal, at 74 the "Dean of the Orthodox Rabbinate" in the U. S., and his son, Israel Herbert Levinthal, director of the Brooklyn Jewish Centre. The succession was broken when the only male in the present generation, Lester Lazar Levinthal, went to Harvard to study law. Though Helen Hadassah Levinthal could not take her brother's place, she was guided in her studies by a Jewish precept: " 'Study the law for its own sake'-that is, for its richness and beauty...
...over) wanted Social Security repealed, but 92.9% wanted it modified. Among small retailers (under $30,000), 20.4% wanted it repealed and 40.9% wanted it kept unchanged. For the Wagner Act. the biggest vote for repeal (48-49.1%) was among small manufacturers and big retailers, but big manufacturers gave the smallest vote for outright repeal (14.3%). Small retailers split, voting 32.6% for repeal and 25-5% (the highest) for keeping...
Progress. To the chemical industry in general, to Du Pont de Nemours in particular, business gave top billing for the greatest technological progress (second were automakers and General Motors). Rated highest in the handling and treatment of labor were the auto industry and Ford, in putting their best foot forward to the public: automakers and General Motors...