Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Newton Diehl Baker. Philip Fox La Follette, Charles Francis Adams, John Cowles, Roland Morris and 12 other potent members of the Council got together and, presumably on President Roosevelt's say-so, picked Raymond Bartlett Stevens to head the new agency. For the last six years Mr. Stevens has served as foreign adviser to little King Prajadhipok of Siam, whose country has an external debt of ?8,500,000. An able New Hampshire lawyer, Mr. Stevens entered Congress in 1913, ran for the Senate at the end of his first term, was defeated. Woodrow Wilson kept...
...movements of the planets, of Gesner's natural history, and of Agricola's De Re Metallica, and these will be brought out for the benefit of the public. One of Mercator's early atlases, will be included. From the seventeenth century, works by Galileo, Kepler, Napier, Pascal, and Newton have been chosen; and from the eighteenth, Priestly, Cuvier, Lamarck, Laplace and Linnaeus...
Dancing Lady (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A burlesque dancer named Janie Barlow (Joan Crawford) meets a jaunty young socialite named Tod Newton (Franchot Tone). He sees to it that she gets a front line position in the chorus of a deluxe revue. The revue's dance director (Clark Gable) observes that she has talent and enthusiasm, makes her the star...
Died, James Arnold Lowell. 64, Federal district judge at Boston, cousin of Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell; of pneumonia following erysipelas; at his home in Newton, Mass. Bostonians knew him as the white-thatched, twinkly-eyed jurist who wore flashy ties and waistcoats, waved to his friends from the bench, admitted Russian refugees into the U. S. and conscientious objectors to citizenship, called Uncle Sam a "sneaking cur" for letting Prohibition agents tap wires. The entire nation heard of him when he temporarily halted the extradition of a Negro charged with murder in Virginia on the ground...
...list of contents also includes "Bear," by John Cromwell '36, "A Later Harvest," by John C. Walcott '34, "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen," by Charles H. Newton '36, and "Seven Nights in the Mountains," by Cyrus L. Sulzberger '34. Three poems are to be "Keep Smiling," by Charles A. Smart '26, "A Virgin," by James L. Boyle '35, and "The Seventh Seal," by Eben Crowley...