Word: historians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the reviews of recent law books, is a criticism of "Bankruptey in United States History" by Charles Warren, famous historian of the Supreme Court. The reviewer is James A. McLaughlin, L.L.B '16, Professor...
...public? I should doubt it. But whether yes or no the trick is done. Leave such things to our age. Your life, dear friend, is quite an open book! And now, but only because I love you, I tell you that some of your remarks to L. Lucceius, the historian, pleading that he speak favorably of you--even beyond the truth if necessary make a pretty immodest page. But pray, let not this trouble you. In this day we separate a man's character from his works. And you are at least an artist, dear Cicero...
...side, Socialist Blum edged too close to a Royalist funeral procession. The militant mourners were young, cane-swinging stalwarts of the Action Franchise, supporters of the restoration as King of France of Monseigneur le Due de Guise, an exile in Belgium. The funeral was that of eminent French historian and publicist Jacques Bainville, a Royalist with a scoffing pen so sharp that he had been excommunicated by the Catholic Church, his corpse barred from burial in consecrated ground. The snout of Socialist Monnet's car incensed the mourning Royalists, three of whom, an insurance agent, a chauffeur...
...year (1932-33) when he was Secretary of Commerce under President Hoover; of pneumonia; in Detroit. Died. Hiram Percy Maxim; 66, third of a famed family of inventors, best known for his Maxim silencer; of a throat ailment; in La Junta, Colo. Died. James Harvey Robinson, 72, noted historian and editor, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Professor of European History at Columbia University for 27 years, he resigned in 1919 to help organize the New School for Social Research. Died. Mary Cora Urquhart Brown Potter, 76, who jolted Victorian morals by deserting society to become the stage sensation...
...been thirty-three years since the first Godkin Lecture was given by the British historian, Lord Bryce. In that span many able scholars and political figures have carried on the vigorous spirit of Edwin Lawrence Godkin. These lectures are a tribute both to the man whose name they bear and to the cause of uncorrupt democracy for which he fought...