Word: member
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother-in-law, Gracie Hall Roosevelt, had bungled at a crucial stage in the Administration's Second Recovery Program. By arranging a White House invitation to Henry Ford, moaned these counselors, this onetime Detroit comptroller had also arranged a White House dramatization for the stiffest and most nonresilient member of the Opposition; had, indeed, obliterated the effects of the friendly pronouncement from SECommissioner John Hanes's Sixteen Businessmen...
...important portrait in oils. Last week the completed Portrait of T. S. Eliot by Artist-Author Wyndham Lewis suddenly became celebrated. It was refused a place in the Royal Academy's annual exhibition of British Art. And in protest against this act the Academy's most distinguished member, bearded, boggling Artist Augustus John, promptly and gratefully resigned. Said he: "A picture by a person of Lewis' eminence should have been unquestionably exhibited. ... I shall be far more at home outside...
When Patrick Horace Nowell-Smith of Eliot House heard that Angus McIntosh of Lowell House knew a member of the Vassar hockey team, he suggested that McIntosh arrange a match. The latter's Poughkeepsie correspondent proved exceedingly cooperative, and the game was scheduled...
Buck, who received his M.A. here in 1924, and his Ph.D. in 1935, has been a member of the faculty since 1926. He is at present an assistant in History 5b and he also conducts History 65b, a course in the history of the South. "Road to Reunion--1865-1900," a history of the reconstruction period and the years following, was published by Little, Brown...
...Myrdal, who is a member of the Swedish Royal Commission on Population, used Sweden as an example of a typical democratic country with a rapidly declining birth rate. "The impending social and economic results of a declining birth rate will have a great effect on industry, trade, and the labor problem besides the general culture of western Europe," he continued...