Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...topic of lively debate. Comptroller O'Connor reported his efforts to date. The President thought much more could be done with aggressive R. F. C. aid, in "hard" money. Secretary Wallace was wide open to suggestions to boost farm prices to new levels created by NRA. At the mention of capital fleeing the U. S. before the Administration's uncertain monetary policy all heads nodded in solemn anxiety...
...mention of Professorial Dignity recalls an incident which occurred during the summer. It appears that M. Jean-Marie Chalifour, citizen of France and instructor in Harvard's French Department, awoke one sultry A.M. to find in his mail box a communication from the city of Cambridge. It was apparently the intent of some minion to inform M. Chalifour that he owed a $2.00 poll...
...review of this work would be incomplete without mention of the numerous maps and photographs which supplement the text. Probably the best of these is the reproduction of a rare Debucourt engraving of the battle at Rodriguez canal. Lengthy annotation and bibliography give further notice that Mr. James is no man to leave a good work unburnished. This present volume carries Jackson through his border-captain days up to 1821. A second and concluding volume is in preparation...
...reveries inspired by a sweet pipe-smoke, a pipe-smoke like unto those described in mild, mellow, expensive advertising, the Vagabond has often pondered the decay of magazine editors. Following a train of thought induced by mention of Messers George Horace Lorimer, Bernarr McFadden, and Lincoln Kirstein, he has publicly bewailed the loss of effusions such as those of the youthful Lincoln Steffens. What an opening there is for editors who can today, blud-goon graft and corruption with sweetness and light, as others did of yore, all with the accompaniment of sounding trumpets and falling walls. There...
...speech to the Freshmen, Mr. Conant spoke highly of the Houses, but made no mention of the tutorial system. How this system, the greatest innovation of the Lowell regime, will develop under the new administration is one of the most interesting questions at this time. For several years the movement has been gaining ground to give some kind of academic credit for tutorial work...