Word: merriams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Brownlow, 57, stubby, highbrowed, oldtime newspaperman who has held many a civic planning post, is now a University of Chicago lecturer on government and director of a coordinating agency called Public Administration Clearing House. Other members were University of Chicago's famed Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam, Columbia's Professor of Municipal Science Luther Halsey Gulick. After lengthy palaver and much questionnairing in Washington, the Committee produced a thoughtful and persuasive report which of itself was no more significant than a thousand other more or less Utopian schemes concocted by academicians in the past. It took...
...Merriam's Cutter Sirs...
...issue TIME errs in reporting Governor Merriam used a dirty acetylene torch to cut the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge chain. A brand new Airco-D B emergency cutting outfit was shipped via express from our Jersey City factory for use at this history-making event...
...with loans of $77,600,000, represented President Roosevelt. Chief Engineer Charles Henry Purcell paid tribute to his staff. A steel-helmeted worker paid tribute to the daily average of 6,500 men employed in the construction. Then, wielding a dirty acetylene torch, California's Governor Frank Finley Merriam severed a gold link in a silver chain across the bridge entrance. Said he profoundly: "This bridge is not the product...
Issuing a challenge to Nominee Roosevelt to confirm or deny his son James's intimation last fortnight that he intended to revive NRA, Nominee Landon rolled on to California. Detraining at Pasadena with Governor Frank Merriam, who had boarded his train earlier, he was met by a cheering crowd, bundled into an automobile to ride to Los Angeles. Shocking was his reception by that pro-Roosevelt city. On the outskirts a group of WPA workers leaned on their shovels, booed lustily as he passed. As his car continued down crowded Broadway the boos swelled into a great, derisive roar...