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...reached the Senate until the New Deal was two years old. Besides, the droll McNutt machine had put Sherman Minton into office while Hugo Black was beholden to no machine except his own, grounded in the Alabama backwoods whence he sprang. His mind made up, Franklin Roosevelt wrote in longhand his long-awaited message to the Senate last week: "I nominate Hugo L. Black of Alabama to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...associate professor of history at Bryn Mawr, married six years later, taught at Johns Hopkins before he became Farnum Professor of American History at Yale in 1910. In his office in the Hall of Graduate Studies and at his New Haven home Professor Andrews turns out his histories in longhand, while his wife goes over his writing before publication, sometimes edits a volume with him. Last month his son, John Williams Andrews, published a well-reviewed first volume of poetry. Prelude to Icaros. Between such tasks as unearthing The Colonial Background of the American Revolution, Professor Andrews travels, is interested...
WHEN James T. Farrell studied at the University of Chicago in 1923 he used to hand in thousand words in an almost illegible longhand to Prof. Jim Weber Linn. Desciphering difficult under graduate handwriting is tiresome, but the professor read young Farrell's stuff with great interest. To the black haired Irish kid from Chicago's Blue Island Avenue, he gave encouragement, out of which ultimately came four grim, first-class novels of life on Chicago's South Side. The fourth, A World I Never Made, has just been published. The world James Farrell has lived in for 31 years...
...condition as recorded at three solar observatories which the U. S. maintains on Table Mountain, Calif.; Mount St. Catherine, Egypt; Mount Montezuma, Chile. Last week he told the scientists in Rochester that he expected $200,000 from Congress to erect seven more solar observatories. President Roosevelt had written a longhand letter to Senator Joseph Robinson urging the appropriation, said Dr. Abbot...
...founders of the swank Brook Club, also served as Shepherd of the plebeian Lambs. For years he never missed a first night on Broadway, yet was always at work at 8:15 o'clock the following morning, writing all his business letters in longhand. And when he bought pieces of art, he paid cash for them...