Word: maccracken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Christians to take a personal pledge to boycott German goods, boats and territory are being rounded up by a committee suggested by Christopher T. Emmet Jr. of Stony Brook, L. I., headed by Dr. William Jay Schieffelin of Manhattan's Citizens' Union, assisted by Presidents Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College and Frank P. Graham of University of North Carolina, President Oliver La Farge of the American Association on Indian Affairs, Editor Guy Emery Shipler of the Churchman...
Vassar's tall, pallid President Henry Noble MacCracken named the five Most Intelligent Women in the World: Angelica Balanbanoff, internationalist, author of My Life As a Rebel (TIME, Aug. 1); Halidé Edib, Turkish patriot, onetime Professor of Western Literature at Istanbul University; Sarojini Naidu, Indian poetess, friend & adviser of Mahatma Gandhi; Mme Chiang Kaishek, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...were Fascist Germany and Italy, the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts of America. And in Washington, where the Dies committee was investigating "unAmerican activities," onetime Red J. B. Matthews testified that Communists were exploiting innocent bigwigs as "fronts" for the Congress. Thereupon Vassar College's President Henry Noble MacCracken, chair man of the U. S. sponsoring committee, snorted: "I think I have sufficient intelligence to know when I am being exploited...
When, after the opening rally on Randall's Island, the Congress delegates went to Vassar for their deliberations, Poughkeepsie's Acting Mayor William B. Duggan refused them the city's welcome. But Dr. MacCracken greeted them warmly, as did New York's Mayor Fiorello H. La-Guardia and three New Deal officials, led by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. From nearby Hyde Park Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt came to address the delegates, became so interested that she returned to crochet and listen at two more sessions...
Leader of the group was Columbia University's top-notch Chemist Harold C. Urey, discoverer of "heavy water." Other members included Vassar's President Henry Noble MacCracken, Cornell's ex-President Livingston Farrand, Harvard's Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, Columbia's William Heard Kilpatrick. They proposed that U. S. colleges give sanctuary and scholarships to the students fleeing the universities of the Fascist countries "because of their belief in democracy." They would be selected by the International Student Service, chosen for ability to make "a positive contribution to American life." Dr. Urey hoped that large...