Word: masse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vast sounding board that is the White House, headline after headline boomed last week across the land. Their substance was furnished by conference after conference within the executive offices where sat President Hoover busily engaged in trying to stabilize Big Business (see p. 35). A major experiment on the mass-mind of the country was in progress as President Hoover sought to transform public psychology from a state of economic apprehension and uncertainty to one of faith and reassurance. To Industry he would give a new momentum to carry it over the aftermath of the stockmarket crash...
...world at large, the headmasters of three famed New England private schools are Dr. Samuel Smith Drury (St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.), the Rev. Endicott Peabody (Groton School, Groton, Mass.) and Dr. William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School (Southborough, Mass.). To thousands of affectionate graduates, hundreds of respectful schoolboys, they are and always will be known respectively as "The Drip," "Pee-bo," and "Twill." St. Marksmen were saddened to learn last week that "Twill" had resigned. He will leave his post before the autumn. Headmaster "Twill" has earned his rest...
Died. Mrs. Edith Emerson Forbes, 87, daughter of Transcendentalist Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), mother of onetime (1909-13) Governor-General William Cameron Forbes of the Philippines; at Milton, Mass...
...Other living Emerson descendants: One son. Edward Waldo Emerson of Concord, Mass., biographer and physician. Two grandsons: Edward Waldo Forbes, director of Harvard's Fogg Museum: Dr. Alexander Forbes, member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School...
...last week the policemen on duty in Holy Cross Cemetery at Malden. Mass., had to admonish, direct and keep moving the great throngs who came to touch the lowly tomb of Patrick J. Power, a Catholic Priest dead for 60 years and now, to the faithful, a potent worker of healing miracles (TIME...