Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frankly delighted at mention of my name in TIME, March 9, nevertheless I must blushingly decline any reputation for acumen, as evidenced by my purported action in adding two extra bartenders for the convention of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association, held in the St. Louis Auditorium in February...
...liquor consumption at the auditorium bar, you fail to mention there were several hundred commercial exhibits on the same floor level, with over a thousand salesmen representing many firms selling school supplies and equipment. I was constantly mingling with schoolmen and failed to notice at anytime a colleague with symptoms of indulgence. At least the outward manifestation was not comparable to the American Legion convention you mention...
...serve to emphasize the importance of this new division. Sociology is a relatively new social science, but it may, with accuracy, be regarded as the center of them all. Its close affiliations with government, economics, education, philosophy and history, its ramifications in the fields of psychology and biology--to mention but a few--only need to be recalled to recognize the importance of sociology. And in its own right it shows astonishing vitality; even at Harvard, under many handicaps, it has expanded and developed greatly. It is, nevertheless, the weakest department in the University, with only one possible competitor...
...Aristophanes' "Frogs" seems to have got under way today without serious depletion, but the grand production of "Julius Caesar," which the Marlowe Society and the A. D. C. are jointly preparing for next week (with your compatriot, Mr. Max Millikan as Cassius) has already lost its Antony, not to mention its Soothsayer, and the producers are fearing that other members of the cast may have been infected at rehearsal. But the resources of the societies in the way of understudies are enormous, and whatever happens, the play will...
Ripping into his critics, Senator Black charged that the same kind of seekers of special privilege who had organized the Liberty League were behind "fake farm unions, sentinels of the republic, protectors of liberty, guardians of the Constitution, self-defense leagues." Picking out the Chicago Tribune for special mention, he declared that, "a gross and malicious campaign of misrepresentation" had been launched against his Committee...