Word: historians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mine will over go to Harvard, no indeed, not with them around. My son wants to go to your school, but you can bet I'm not going to let him. He is the studious type, a sort of historian, so I'm going to send him to Stanford...
Married, Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, 45, lecturer, historian, Scripps-Howard columnist; and Mrs. Jean Hutchinson Newman; in Reno, shortly after each had been divorced. In establishing residence, Mrs. Newman took an apartment with Mrs. Barnes who, suing for divorce on grounds of cruelty, testified that her husband was in love with another woman...
Thus the New Deal added another literary light to its representatives overseas who already include: Novelist Meredith Nicholson, Minister to Paraguay; Historian William E. Dodd, Ambassador to Germany; Journalist Claude G. Bowers. Ambassador to Spain; Publisher Lincoln MacVeagh, Minister to Greece...
Louis Napoleon, nephew of the great Napoleon, spent some 35 years attempting to become Emperor of the French. He finally succeeded. But according to Historian Philip Guedalla he should have died on the day of his coronation. For the story which Guedalla told in his The Second Empire is one of anticlimax, of a nouveau riche court, a theme for irony and wisecracks, the Napoleonic legend reduced to farce. "The gaslit tragedy of the Second Empire," Guedalla contemptuously called the regime which was born in intrigue in the early 1850's, found its Empress in the granddaughter...
Even with this restriction it is apparent that Professor Haring has been in constant fear of allowing his explanations to occupy too much, and this fear has proved rather injurious to the book. For the presentation often becomes jerky and terse as the historian hurries from one episode to another, with the inevitable result of producing an account that is sometimes hard to follow with sustained interest. This stylistic difficulty somewhat mars an otherwise very valuable book...