Word: member
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of May 16, carries an advertisement of TIME, which tells of the editors, writers, researchers and correspondents of the new Radio Department, who have for three months been exploring the field. They are described as having gathered news "from London, where television has failed dismally." Some member of your team has surely betrayed you here. Any of the many thousands of people, who watched on the television screen Bois Roussel make his winning dash in the Derby, or Eddie Phillips knocking out Ben Foord in the ninth round, or Donald Budge playing at Wimbledon, could have told him better...
...years ago dark, spectacled, deliberate William Gellermann, a professor at Northwestern University, submitted a thesis for his Ph.D. at Columbia's Teachers College. A War veteran and member of the American Legion, Professor Gellermann had written a copiously documented but partisan analysis of the Legion.* Its sponsor was Teachers College's leftist Professor George Sylvester Counts. Last year, typewritten copies of this document got scant attention from the press. But last week, as the National Education Association gathered in .Manhattan (see col. 3) and the first copies of Dr. Gellermann's work came from the printers...
...doubt it. Not a pressure group? Why, it has been, on occasion, one of the most arrogant and powerful and vindictive of all the pressure groups. . . . If Doctor Professor Legionnaire Gellermann's tirade should lead to a realistic re-examination of the American Legion by its own member ship it will have done some good...
...ready to adjourn. Out it marched to the World's Fair, busily abuilding, made an honorary life member of onetime Teacher Eleanor Roosevelt. Presiding over the convention's final meeting, Mrs. Roosevelt introduced the main speaker. Said she: "It is the privilege of a presiding officer to make a speech. I will not avail myself of that privilege. May I present the President of the United States...
Died. Frederick William Vanderbilt, 82, oldest surviving member of the family, only surviving son of William Henry Vanderbilt, grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; after a week's illness; in Hyde Park, N. Y. An unassuming philanthropist, he possessed the twin talents of most Vanderbilts for railroading and yachting, was a director of 22 railroads, sailed his ships on the seven seas. Once he landed on the rocks off the coast of Colombia, was rescued with difficulty by a United Fruit liner...