Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...M. CHASE...
...world of education President Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago is known as "the boy wonder." In the non-cloistered world, 40-year-old Dr. Hutchins has made no such reputation. Franklin Roosevelt once summoned him to Washington for a high New Deal post but nothing ever came of it. Last week his recent election as one of three "public representatives" on the board of the reformed New York Stock Exchange also came to nothing...
...Frank Donald Coster (according to Who's Who) got his M. D. from Heidelberg. That year and the next United States Hair Co. borrowed nearly $1,000,000 on invoices signed by branch offices in London, Paris, Naples; lenders were the Bank of the Manhattan Co., the Anglo-South American Trust Co., and J. & W. Seligman & Co., some 20 others. But when Philip Musica tried to borrow $370,000 on a bill of lading for $250 worth of hair, the company fell apart. There were no legitimate offices abroad. There was mighty little hair. There was a sudden shortage...
...from the late German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke gives a crude but not misleading idea of Rilke's utter reliance on beauty as a human achievement that needs no advertising. No greater justification for Rilke's reliance could be found than the spirit in which his translator, M. D. Herter Norton, has done Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Norton, $2.50). In Translator Norton's foreword, she explains with noteworthy clarity that although all of a poem is lost in translation, no real poem can ever really be lost. In translation or out, and despite...
...writing, Merrill Moore has written so many sonnets (50,000) that he habitually thinks in blocks of 14 lines. Since his 18th year he has written an average of five sonnets a day, and as many as 100 in four hours. This month he published a few of them: M: One Thousand Autobiographical Sonnets (Harcourt, Brace...