Word: hapgood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking as his subject "Foreign Issues in the Presidential Campaign," Norman Hapgood '90 will speak at the Foreign Affairs School of Radcliffe College at 8 o'clock this evening. The Foreign Affairs School is organized by the Massachusetts League of Women Voters and is held with the cooperation of the College...
...Hapgood's subject for this speech before the School was chosen because he feels that while the soundness of business depends on the reform of industry, the world has become one, and intelligent relations between the nations are also necessary to the prosperity of each, so that he is convinced that in the political arguments of the approaching campaign it will be impossible to separate the international issues from the business problems...
...Hapgood, who has just returned from two years residence in Europe, mostly in Germany and France, has had many editorial connections, including an editorship of Collier's for nearly 10 years and of Harper's weekly for three years. His editorial experience and his subsequent keen interest in American politics equip him to speak with authority and penetration on this topic...
...flamboyant rascality of three decades ago, so is Editor Augustus Ralph Keller colorless, small-scale compared to the vivid colonel. Editor Keller is already awaiting trial on a charge of criminal libel. Col. Mann had the temerity to sue the late Publisher Peter F. Collier and Editor Norman Hapgood of Collier's for libel. As a result of that fruitless sortie, the colonel was prosecuted on a charge of perjury for his barefaced denial that the "O. K., W. D. M." at the bottom of a document was his signature. Famed Lawyer Martin Wiley Littleton won an acquittal by rehearsing...
Solely to amuse themselves, a group of friends at Provincetown, Mass., 16 summers ago, went over to Hutchins Hapgood's verandah and put on a couple of plays. Susan Glaspell was there; so were George Cram ("Jig") Cook, rebel John Reed, Mary Heaton Vorse. Robert Edmond Jones, a young man of talent and resource, fashioned scenery out of porch furniture, odds-&-ends. The Almighty supplied the backdrop, a tumbling ocean. Next year the play-acting fad persisted. Mary Vorse turned over a shack on her wharf to the enterprise and someone named Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, a lank...