Word: historian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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None of them liked what they road, but they say it in different ways. A. P. Usher, learned historian of our economic past believes that the structure and purpose of Sorokin are more significantly displayed by Volume II. The editors evidently agreed, and hence put his article first...
...above all things. He borrowed Buckingham and St. James's Palaces, Windsor Castle. He persuaded Liverpool Museum to let him use the original, wheezing train which carried the real Victoria & Albert on their real honeymoon. The Royal Mews let him have the genuine Jubilee coach. He hired Dance Historian Lucile Marsh to puff in advance notices that the film's 19th Century dances were not only authentic, but were direct ancestors of the Big Apple. Miss Neagle herself is said to have culled 40% of the dialogue from her prototype's journal, from letters. In the picture...
Moritz Warburg married Charlotte Oppenheim in Hamburg in the middle of the 19th Century. There were five sons. Felix, Paul, Max and Fritz grew up to be bankers, Aby became a famed art historian. Felix followed Paul to the U. S. and into Kuhn, Loeb & Co., stayed with the company after Paul left to help start the Federal Reserve System. But Felix was less interested in banking than in charity & world Jewry...
...Wilbur Lucius Cross, Governor of Connecticut, presented the symbols of office-the mace, the keys, the record book, the charter and the great seal of the university-in sonorous Latin pronounced him the 15th president of Yale. In Latin, President Seymour replied. This 200-year-old ritual completed, Historian Seymour mounted the pulpit, warned that "Yale must be vigilantly self-critical . . . must beware of the peril of isolation," pledged "absolute intellectual freedom," exhorted Yalemen: "The duty of protecting freedom of thought and speech is the more compelling in these days when the liberal spirit in the world at large...
Baxter. In Chapin Hall, Williamstown, Mass., where 23 years before he had delivered a student's valedictory, Dr. James Phinney Baxter III, became at 44 the tenth president of Williams College. Historian Baxter: "We are witnessing the collapse of the world's system of collective security. . . . Our own country . . . has placed on the statute books a new system of neutrality which in the opinion of many careful students is more likely to involve us in war than our old system...