Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it got down to George Herbert Palmer the best, or worst, Mr. Foster could say in characterization was "a well-known classical scholar." Now somehow that puts Professor Palmer in such a distant historical epocli and causes the background to appear to faded and blurred that my sense of loyalty was aroused. True, Palmer was a classical scholar--his translations of Homer are proof of that; but that is not why he was a great personality--one of the Great Quintette in Philosophy as characterized by Rollo Brown in that fascinating book (which no doubt is on the CRIMSON...
...nickel near me was taking a chance.") He got into appeals work and until 1931 did nothing else. In the appellate division he argued 1,400 cases covering every imaginable kind of law from bastardy to bankruptcy. His first trial case was in 1931 when he defended young Herbert Singer, of the Bank of United States. He won Singer's freedom finally on an appeal. For the next 14 years, as a trial lawyer, he did not lose a single case...
...things ride until spring. By that time, Labor hopes to repair some of the political damage which it suffered in the devaluation crisis. This week Attlee will put before Parliament a new economic program including reduction in government expenditures and other measures which, as Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison put it, "are bound to be unpleasant...
Grace Coolidge, who moved out of the White House in 1929, and Herbert Hoover, who moved in after her, met in another choice spot: the Yankee Stadium field boxes...
...more than a year NBC's University Theater (Sun. 2 p.m.) has been dramatizing important works of modern literature, e.g., Forster's A Passage to India and Huxley's After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, with casts including such important movie stars as Herbert Marshall and Deborah Kerr. The program was a cultural hit; six U.S. universities have offered home-study courses in conjunction with the show. But it was no big-audience...