Word: historian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to keep intelligent people well informed. But even working editors cannot be wholly unconscious of anniversaries, and TIME'S have chosen to celebrate by printing their first story about themselves. To get it on paper, the Editors asked one of their oldest members to turn historian...
Most cogent of a string of other objectors to a bigger U. S. Navy was eminent Historian Charles A. Beard whose thesis was the eminently simple one that the only possible excuse for giving the Navy $800,000,000 was to implement the President's desire to "quarantine" aggressor nations; that such a quarantine would mean "aggressive warfare in the far Pacific or the far Atlantic"; and that if, on the contrary, "Congress intends to provide defense for the American domain of interest in this hemisphere, it should make corresponding alterations in the President's program." Historian Beard...
Sigfried Giedion, Swiss historian of art and one of the leading European figures in the promotion of modern architecture and art, has been appointed Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the current academic year, it was announced today...
Said Professor Schaper's good friend, famed Historian Charles A. Beard: "... A monument to freedom of inquiry." In Oklahoma, William Schaper, now white-haired, bit his lip to hold back the tears, faltered: "It is so sudden I hardly know what to say. I never have borne a grudge against any man involved in my dismissal. Of course I am profoundly grateful...
...took to the international field, is Mrs. Allison Pierce Moore (mother of three). Mrs. Moore was agitated about the Massachusetts police who raided and closed clinics in Salem last July. That case comes up for appeal this month, and Mrs. Moore opened for the defense by declaring: "The historian of the future may record for 1937-first, great advances from the standpoint of health and eugenics; second, that in Salem, Mass, a backward step was taken, reminding us of the witch burnings in that same city 245 years...