Word: livingstons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geoffrey Chaucer and the Development of His Genius," a new book by John Livingston Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, was published by Houghton Mifflin Company on Wednesday...
Scholar-Writer Bliss Perry retired almost three years ago and Humanist Irving Babbitt died last July, but Harvard still has giants in its English department. One of them is tiny, big-voiced John Livingston Lowes, 66, keen student of the Romantic Movement. He is perhaps the most brilliant U. S. example of the great scholar-teacher whom President Conant wants on his faculty. Another giant is snowy-bearded George Lyman Kittredge, 73, bon vivant, Chaucer and Shakespeare authority, prime link between Harvard's past & present...
...petitioner in bankruptcy ; the liabilities of his company $412,900; its assets, none; his own assets, the red brick house he lives in near Dearborn's Main Street, a few shares of stock (which he offers to pledge to meet the claims of creditors), real estate in Livingston County, Mich., not one automobile. Detroiters who made this comparison did not find it odious, either to William or to Henry. They knew that Depression had been too much for William's business, that also an individualist, but in a different way, he would not ask help from Henry, would...
...Senate's minority leader. Slim of body and quick of brain, Senator McNary is personally popular with all factions of the G. 0. P. To his rooms in the Senate Office Building went two rich, prominent and ambitious Republican has-beens, onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills and onetime Ambassador to France Walter Evans Edge. After a morning of strategy discussions, they adjourned to Mr. Edge's house for luncheon...
...urged that its labor provisions be made permanent. "Jungle warfare," said he, "has no place in modern industry. The exploitation of workers . . . has been a deep, underlying cause of our lack of social advance." The Herald Tribune, supposedly behind the Presidential candidacy of its owner's cousin, Ogden Livingston Mills, conspicuously printed: "Miss Lucy Randolph Mason, general secretary of the National Consumers' League . . . said that she had been so impressed by Governor Winant's address that although I've never voted the Republican ticket I'd like to turn Mugwump and nominate him for President...