Word: howards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Poland and Germany thus prepared for a showdown, journalistic prophets were busy. New York Times Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye journeyed from Europe to Manhattan to declare "war inevitable." Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor William Philip Simms was more explicit. He wrote from Washington he had "secret information" that Führer Hitler was thinking over the possibility of sudden, simultaneous moves against Poland, Egypt, Suez and Gibraltar. Added" Editor Simms: "A sinister aspect of the report is that Marshal Hermann Göring, hitherto regarded as a moderate in opposition to Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and [Police Chief] Heinrich...
...director for their music school, Eastman's executives in 1924 picked a boyish, bearded, 28-year-old Nebraskan named Howard Hanson. Director Hanson's main interest was composition, and it was not long before he had turned Eastman's music school into a gigantic incubator for young U. S. composers. For them Director Hanson provided classes in counterpoint, a symphony orchestra, and even a ballet company to play their works. He installed a recording system, made phonograph records of students' lopsided sonatas and sway-backed symphonies, so that they could study their faults over & over again...
...best-selling novel, The Yearling, plump Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings was awarded this year's Pulitzer Prize. Other winners: Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (his second), for Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Biographer Carl Van Doren, for Benjamin Franklin; Scripps-Howard Correspondent Thomas L Stokes, for exposing WPA in Kentucky politics...
...volume of the series published in 1930, namely to recite accurately the story of American periodicals from 1741 to the present day. Already the work has been generally accepted as the standard authority on the subject by distinguished professors and critics including Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of American History, Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, and the American Historical Review...
...Barrel-chested and haughty, he pads about his swank offices in the Empire State Building or another set of offices at the fair with regal pomp (stenographers greet him: "Good morning, Mr. President"). Once a week he confers with a management council, whose three chief members are Vice Presidents Howard A. Flanigan, John Philip Hogan and Stephen F. Voorhees. Mr. Hogan is the fair's chief engineer, Mr. Voorhees its chief architect. Howard Flanigan is as close as anyone gets to being No. 2 man. He is officially in charge of commercial exhibits, concessions, and the amusement area...