Word: historian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Wilmarth Ickes, 37, son of the late Mrs. Harold Le Clair Ickes and the University of California's Historian James Westfall Thompson, her first husband; by his own hand (revolver); in Winnetka, Ill. In Woburn, Mass, the Secretary of the Interior's other foster son, Robert H. Ickes, 23, was acquitted of driving while under the influence of liquor...
...Marshal will then call for the invocation, which will be delivered by Dean Sperry, Chairman of the Board of Preachers. Professor Edward Kennard Rand will next be called upon for a Latin Oration of welcome. Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, official Historian of the University, will make a brief recital of the events constitution the founding of Harvard College, beginning with the vote of the General Court, and ending with the Charter...
Smoothest oration of the meeting came from stocky, aggressive Historian Louis Morton Hacker. Slickly observed he: "The Daughters of the American Revolution are the most dangerous enemies of the free schools in America. It is time these busybodies were told what their ancestors fought for. . . . Many of the members of the D. A. R. of today, had they been alive in 1776, would have been Tories. . . . The American Revolution of 1776 was a popular uprising of the workers, and the labor unions of today are the true inheritors of this tradition...
...again. On p. 53 of your issue of Aug. 3, under Milestones, you state that the late Brigham Young had 19 wives. You do him an injustice. He was a faithful husband to 27 wives, according to Brigham Young by M. R. Werner (p. 333). As a strictly gentile historian I might also point out that his 56 children were born to him by 16 wives, that eleven of his wives had no children...
...Isaiah Bowman of Johns Hopkins University LL.D. President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania. .. .LL.D. President William Edwin Hall of the Boys' Club Federation of America. . .M.A. President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago LL.D. President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories D.Sc. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison. .. .Litt.D. Historian George Macauley Trevelyan.Litt...