Word: merriams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FROM experience, Dr. Dexter Merriam Keezer, president of Reed College (Portland, Ore.) has learned that heavy academic robes are stifling. Amherst A. B., Cornell M. A., Brookings Institute Ph. D., Dr. Keezer taught variously and brilliantly at Dartmouth, Cornell, and the Universities of California and North Carolina, but he was a fish that leapt occasionally from the dry bank into the stream to get into the swim of things again. He worked on the Denver Times and edited the Baltimore Sun, Reed College found him a year ago working on the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board...
...John Campbell Merriam, 66, geologist, paleontologist, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; the American Institute's gold medal; for discoveries in paleontology, promotion of research, recognition of the place of science in human affairs. Dr. Merriam's broad surveys of fossils and artifacts convince him that man in the U. S. is at least 100,000 years old. Dr. William Francis Giauque, 40, of the University of California, holder of the U. S. record for low temperature (.16° C. above Absolute Zero), discoverer of two variant forms of oxygen weighing 17 and 18 atomic units instead...
Since in California the consent of a candidate is not necessary in order to run a slate of delegates for him, Mr. Hearst took silence for consent, got up a slate for Landon. Three days before the Hearst slate was filed, Governor Merriam, unable to get himself a place of prominence on Mr. Hoover's uninstructed delegation, startled California by announcing himself for Landon. Thus the Merriams and the Hearsts converged from opposite directions, marched on as an army of Landons...
...listened to advisers who told him that if he entered in California he might only split the anti-Hoover vote and run last in a field of three. With Borah out, that left California Republicans a choice next month of marching with the Hoovers or in the Landon-Hearst-Merriam brigade...
When the picture opened last week, Governor Frank Finley Merriam of California proclaimed Gold Week, and Sacramento held a warm-up for its 1939 Hometown Jubilee. There was a Governor's "Sutter's Gold Ball." Carl Laemmle and entourage arrived in five private cars. Local merchants displayed themselves in 1849 costumes and sideburns...