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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was how it began. The Reverend Charles A. Livingston, descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, approved of dancing and cigarets. Or at least he did not disapprove of them. In little old Setauket, on Long Island's North Shore, that set up eddies of talk behind green-shuttered windows whenever he walked down the street. Plump, rich Julia Smith, in whose backyard is the grave of an ancestor killed in the Revolution, was especially upset. She was president of the Ladies Aid Society and there the talk boiled up hottest. Gentle, white-haired Rector Livingston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 6t Talk | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...Just received telegram from friend on Yale Varsity who says that David Livingston, rowing No. 4 on Junior Varsity, cannot go to New London to race against Harvard because of R. O. T. C. engineering camp. Apparently no Senators have been able to excuse him and they wish father to intervene as soon as possible if anything can be done. See you at the races, I hope. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., member of Harvard's Freshman crew, sent that telegram last week to White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. When the President saw the message he sent Sub-Secretary Early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Jun. 18, 1934 | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

...Actress Edith Wynne Matthison . . . . . Litt. D. President Constance Warren of Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, N.Y.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ED. D. Syracuse University (Syracuse, N. Y.) Robert Woods Bliss, U. S. Ambassador to the Argentine . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. Brain Surgeon Harvey Cushing . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. Federal Coordinate of Transportation Joseph B. Eastman . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Livingston Farrand of Cornell . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. President-elect Dixon Ryan Fox . . . . . . L.H.D. Eugene Meyer, onetime Governor of the Federal Reserve Board . . . . . . . . LL.D. Senator Cameron Morrison of North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Dr. Florence Rena Sabin of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research . . . Sc.D. University of Detroit (Detroit, Mich.) Vice President Charles Franklin Kettering of General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos Jun. 11, 1934 | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...Astoria's long banquet table one evening last week. He and 400 others were saluting the semicentennial of Memorial, first exclusive cancer hospital in the U S., second in the world.* At the speakers' table were, among others, President Dean Lewis of the American Medical Association; President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University; Harry Pelham Robbins of Manhattan's Empire Trust Co., who presided; Lucius Nathan Littauer, glovemaking benefactor; William Henry Donner, grandfather of President Roosevelt's Grandson William Donner Roosevelt; Dr. Clarence Cook Little, director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Memorial's Milestone | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...John Livingston Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson professor of English Literature, has been granted leave of absence for the second half of next year. During his absence, which he will spend in England, English 78, his course on English poets of the nineteenth century will be discontinued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowes Granted Leave | 4/26/1934 | See Source »

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