Word: merriam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year's lecturer was Douglas B. Copeland, Australian economist. Other appointments to the lectureship went to Rt. Hon. James Bryce, President Charles W. Eliot, Walter Lippman, Lewis W. Douglas, Heinrich Bruening, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Gunnar Myrdal, Robert Moses, and Charles E. Merriam. The lectures are usually published in book form at a later date...
Earl Kelly believes and says that the Republican Party should be frankly conservative, and no nonsense about it. A hearty, well-barbered Irishman with a fine baritone voice, he learned the political ropes as highway commissioner and director of public works under Republican Governors Rolph and Merriam. Just before Merriam was beaten for re-election in 1938, he joined the Bank of America as a vice president. Last spring he started an investment banking firm of his own (First California Co.). He will run far governor, he said, if "support lines up for a real business leadership...
...Grinaker's dissection and rendition of "Iron Dick" was perfect to every last flick of the glasses and every draw on the jaw--only the indispensible pole was missing. (Speaking of Professor Merriam, whom we have now bequeathed to Company 4, we might advise those boys to notice and appreciate his ties and to compliment him on his sparkling Monday morning appearance, since these things have always made him "happy" as everyone in the second term wants...
...What happened to Artie and his Stanley Steamer that night? Professor Merriam and others were greatly disturbed at his absence...
Calling to mind the time honored maxim of Professor Merriam (Mr. Jim Rafferty's ward, it seems) about cracking eggs, we must break quite a few to mix this week's omelet. The atmosphere is electric now that one doesn't know but what one's best friend may weaken and make plans for a wedding this February. All caution has been cast to the winds. The only safe way to enumerate the prospects is to gay that we know absolutely that "hermit" Dean Brooks and "leach" White are not planning anything. As for the rest, well--anything can happen...