Word: howards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Conant's rejection of all the committee's conclusions except that on academic freedom and his curt refusal to reinstate the men are breathtaking. He takes the reasoned conclusions of men like Professors Ralph Barton Perry, Felix Frankfurter, W. S. Ferguson, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Kenneth B. Murdock, Howard Shapely, and treats them with a whimsical impatience that would scarcely be accorded to a letter to the editor in an undergraduate newspaper...
...Edgar Howard Borck, captain of the Manhattan College team, ran the mile in 4 min., 13.9 sec., breaking by a half-second the classic record set by Cornell's John Paul Jones...
...Army reckons him 48 because he lied about his age when he enlisted 30 years ago), doffed his uniform, retired. With his retirement, history turned a page. He sounded taps for the Unknown Soldier, for many an -Army brass hat, for Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, Leonard Wood, William Howard Taft...
...unpaid, honorary officer, Moderator Bates will in effect be a public relations man, traveling about the U. S. delivering speeches, unifying Unitarianism. The big Unitarian footsteps he will follow will be those of such presidents of the General Conference (an office abolished a dozen years ago) as William Howard Taft and Harvard's Charles William Eliot...
...returns. Empire Gas & Electric Co., subsidiary of shrewd, roly-poly Howard Colwell Hopson's Associated Gas & Electric Co., took a $38,543 deduction for the cost of lobbying against the Public Utility Holding Company Act. With some heat, the Internal Revenue Bureau rejected the claim. Last week in Washington, Empire Gas took it up with the Board of Tax Appeals, asked why lobbying should not be considered a "necessary business expense...