Word: historian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Governor-General-Designate Buchan, giving up his seat in Parliament, said the magnificently right thing: "As an historian I have always been fascinated by the romance of Canada's history and her wonderful development. ... I do not feel that I am really leaving home, since Canada has been so largely made by my countrymen and so much inspired by Scottish tradition. I look forward also to seeing much that is wonderful in the French-Canadian race, which has produced some of the chief pioneers in the world's history. I found in the War that...
Thus did Charles A. Beard indict the U. S. railroads before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee last fortnight. Something of an authority on railroad mismanagement. Historian Beard was urging adoption of a pending Senate resolution authorizing a railroad investigation on the order of the Banking & Currency Committee's famed stockmarket probe. Even Jesse Jones, whose RFC millions have not prevented the worst succession of railroad failures since the days of Jay Gould, has admitted that the investigation "might be a good thing...
...carriers made news last week which pointedly documented Historian Beard's indictment. As Wall Street had long expected, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific (mileage: 11,226) acknowledged itself in financial difficulties. Hav-ing failed to meet a maturing bond issue, it announced that it would present a reorganization plan before July i. Only seven years ago it emerged from a notoriously expensive reorganization managed by Kuhn. Loeb & Co. But instead of permanently paring the road's topheavy debt, the reorganization reduced fixed charges little, and the total capitalization was actually increased...
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, the Yankee farmer who became a knight of the Holy Roman Empire is revealed in a short biography by John H. G. Pell '26, famous historian and author of "Ethan Allen...
...narrowed eyes, eyes that have wept for the broken Virgin, eyes that have faced battle, caressed and lusted, heavy with cupidity, glazed with surfeit, once expectant as the sky in May. . . . He is a type of Frenchman not yet extinct nor likely to be extinct for centuries." So does Historian Francis Hackett introduce his latest hero, Francis I. Author Hackett's 448-page tome is compendious and scholarly but he does not believe that "history should be blonde-proof"; not simply dignified names and dates but Francis' blondes and brunettes figure largely in this narrative...