Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blame for its mad scramble to participate in the Coolidge Bull market, the burly little Representative from Manhattan charged that brokers and operators always retained a high pressure press agent to puff stocks selected for manipulation. From his trunk he fished out evidence furnished by one Arthur Newton Plummer, who had "handled" 61 stocks...
Died. Sir Patrick Geddes, 78, biologist, sociologist, philosopher, pioneer city planner; in Montpellier, France. Trained in biology under Thomas Huxley, he quickly achieved fame in his subject, then focused this knowledge on sociology. For the solution of social problems he labored to find a calculus as Leibnitz and Newton had found one to solve mathematical problems. Led by his environmental interpretation of evolution to college and town planning, he designed the Hebrew University building in Jerusalem, reconstructed the slums of Edinburgh, laid out Rabindranath Tagore's university in Bengal. Correlator of the arts and sciences, he wrote Evolution...
...question, "Resolved, That Herbert Hoover should be elected President in 1932", in its arguments in Cambridge, and the affirmative side of the same topic at Yale. About 75 people attended the meeting in Lowell House, and heard the judges, Captain E. N. Edwards of Wellesley, J. E. Gibson of Newton Centre, and A. L. Moore of Boston, deliver the verdict, following which a session of questions from the floor was held...
Professor Thaxter was born in Newton, August 28, 1858, and was the son of Levi L. and Celia (Laighton) Thaxter. He was graduated from Harvard with the degree of A.B. in 1882, and subsequently received his A.M. and Ph.D...
...Said Newton D. Baker last week: "Stanley King's love of life, his knowledge of youth, his happiness and integrity are all qualities which will make him a great example as a college president. . . . The highest qualification for a college presidency is that the students should desire to be like the president. I can imagine few people whom it would be more wholesome to be like than him." Said President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Amherst's rival. Dartmouth: "My respect has continued and grown for the scope of his intellectual interest and for the quality of his thinking in regard...