Word: jay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...education is practical training for useful pursuits-was violently anathematized a year ago, and again last month, by Dr. Abraham Flexner (TIME, Dec. 15, 1930; Dec. 14). From another educator last week came similar but more polite strictures in The Theory of Education in the U. S., by Albert Jay Nock (Harcourt, Brace: $2). But Dr. Nock, unlike Dr. Flexner, is a cordial admirer of President Butler, a graduate (1892) of Columbia's offspring, St. Stephen's College at Annadale-on-Hudson, N. Y., where he is now visiting professor of U. S. history and politics.- Dr. Nock...
...would otherwise go to party politics. Industrial disappointment with the Tariff to bring back good times has frozen much Republican revenue. To bring in enough money to keep national headquarters solvent until the June convention, the committee last week named a special cash-collecting board headed by Philadelphia Banker Jay Cooke...
Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley bought 1,200-acre Belmont Plantations near Leesburg, Va., recently sold under foreclosure by Publisher Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean of the Washington Post; denied a report that he had loaned $100,000 to Publisher McLean...
Birthdays. General August von Mackensen (82); Dr. William Temple Hornaday (77); Lord Jellicoe (72); Edward Hugh Sothern (72); William Crapo Durant (70); Robert Patterson Lament (64); Joseph Leiter (63); Gerard Swope (59); Newton Diehl Baker (60); Arthur Atwater Kent (58); Winston Churchill (57); Frank Jay Gould...
Pool won the tournament by defeating W. P. Dixon '25 in the semi-finals, 15-11, 15-12, 15-13, and by beating Jay Iselin '29, 15-7, 15-9, 15-12. Although Pool had no trouble in winning from Dixon and Iselin, he had a close five game match with Perry Pease of the New York Tennis and Racquet Club earlier in the tournament. Iselin entered the finals by defeating George D. Debovoise '26 in a close match, 17-14, 18-14, 15-13, having defeated the present National Champion, J. L. Pool '28, Beckman Pool's brother...