Word: hartley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...penniless Philadelphia musician pawned a gold, jewel-studded, key-winding watch bearing the inscription: "To Benjamin Franklin, in memoriam, September 3, 1783, David Hartley...
...specialized colleges, upped enrollment from 3,000 to 7,000. But he made one major mistake. As virtual Governor during the fatal six-month illness of Wartime Governor Ernest Lister, he started to clean up lumber camps and trod on the toes of a lumberman named Roland Hill Hartley. In 1926 Hartley was Governor and Suzzalo found himself...
...Hartley Board of Regents which ousted Suzzalo draped the presidential mantle around Matthew Lyle Spencer, director of Washington's School of Journalism, but put the presidential sceptre in the hands of a Hartley henchman named William Neal Winter, a practicing spiritualist with a "control" named Hugo. Asked Washingtonians: "Who really runs the University-Hartley or Hugo?" In 1932 Hartley (or Hugo), ostensibly for economy, smashed the Suzzalo system of Colleges, bore down on extracurricular activities, optional courses. That autumn Washington Alumnus Clarence Daniel Martin (Class of 1906) rode the Democratic landslide into the Governorship. President Spencer soon "asked...
Author C. Hartley Grattan predicts a repetition of the events of 1914, with the U S. caught between blockading and blockaded powers in the Atlantic. In tl Pacific Japan will use force to stop tl flow of U. S. supplies to Soviet Russia via China. Author Lothrop Stoddard's anti-War prescription: float no foreign bonds of combatants in the U. S.; trade with combatants for cash or short-term credits; export no arms or munitions. - ED. Haul Sirs...
...first article, of the gloomy point of view, is written by Hartley Grattan, who appears to be an able student of modern war and world affairs. The second, "How America Can Keep Out of the Next War," is written by Lothrop Stoddard, in a manner to prove that Mr. Stoddard was probably living on the northern shore of Baffin Land, or perhaps inside the Mammoth Caverns during the last war. Mr. Stoddard desires with a great earnestness to keep out of the next war, unless "a vital natural interest" (i.e. not that of keeping out of war) is involved...