Word: historian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impressionistic commentator, Bunde makes a pretty good score, but it is to be expected that his justice might miscarry in some instances. And notable among these latter is the case of Professor Usher who has been characterized as "neither an economist nor, in the true sense, an historian," but rather "a collector of details--a hard working, conscientious gatherer of economic facts." Usher has done an excellent job in Ec. 133 (where I happen to have heard him) in tracing the pattern of economic development, and Mr. Bunde's failure to catch even a glimmering reflection of this pattern...
Pegler left the American in 1915, worked three years on the Chicago Journal, where he broke in a couple of cubs named Lowell Thomas and Ben Hecht. In 1918 Pegler joined Terry Ramsaye in Manhattan to crash the moving picture business. Ramsaye stuck and became the historian of the industry, but after a few years Pegler was hired at $250 a week by a company which promptly folded. He went back to newspapering, first on the Tribune, then the Daily News, finally the Mirror. When he retired from the Mirror he was writing all the editorials and Editor Emile Gauvreau...
According to the National Board of Review Magazine, "this is the best use of documentary films to record history, with historical intent, that we have seen. But it proves that history is not an abstract thing but something made by a an historian...
...Authors. Declining to reveal which is which in their literary partnership, Charles Austin Beard claims that the secret of his congenial collaboration with his charming wife, Mary, is "division of argument." But Charles Beard is the solid head historian of the history-writing Beard family (Daughter Miriam: A History of the Business Man; Son William: Government and Technology; Son-in-Law Alfred Vagts: The History of Militarism...
...years ago the Oxford University Press and England's Columbia Graphophone Co. planned a joint history of music, stamped on records. Edited by the noted English music historian and lexicographer, Percy Scholes (TIME, Dec. 12), this history was to consist of short recorded examples of music typical of all periods from the loth Century to the present. The Columbia History's fifth and last volume gives a taste and a sniff of the 20th Century's principal musical styles, ranges from the romantic Schwarmerei of Richard Strauss and Mahler to the quarter-tone caterwauling of Kulturbolschewik Alois...