Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Mayor Chéron had made his plodding, Norman way in Paris to the unexciting post of Minister of Agriculture (1922-24). He made it exciting, became the idol of French farmers. No Minister of Agriculture before or since has shut out of France so much meat because of hoof & mouth disease, so many potatoes on account of scab, so much butter because of "taints." More important, during this period Minister of Agriculture Chéron won the firm friendship of his exalted chief, Premier Raymond Poincaré, "Savior of the Franc...
Such a revolution Socialist Norman Thomas had in mind last week when he addressed a convention of the Intercollegiate Student Council of the League for Industrial Democracy at Manhattan's Barnard College. When young representatives of 30 Eastern colleges were 20 minutes late arriving to hear him, he, always punctual, upbraided them thus: "I'm terribly fed up with the romanticism of your generation. You give advice on every subject, including how not to conduct a revolution, but you never get around to a meeting on time...
...Golden Jubilee. E. S. Martin was Life's first editor, and a part owner but was stricken with malaria and had to quit after the first six months. Three or four years later he resumed work as editorial writer, wrote regularly for the next 40 years until Editor Norman Hume Anthony, now of Ballyhoo, took the editorship of Life in 1929 for a brief tenure. Lloyd George had called E. S. Martin "the greatest editorial writer using the English language today"; Anthony threw out the Martin editorials because they were "lousy." The Martin editorials have been resumed since then...
...hoods bearing the letters D.D.M.C. They aroused an 18-year-old sophomore. "Come with us, Bill Stephens," intoned a leader darkly. Student Stephens stumbled from his bed. Outside it was 19° Fahrenheit. In his pajamas he was escorted to a field three miles from the University town of Norman. There the black-robes lashed Student Stephens ten times across the back with a three-quarter-inch rope. Then they gave him an overcoat, a pair of boots, told him to walk home and "take time to think before writing any more such stories...
...Died. Norman Edward Mack (McEachran), 74, potent Buffalo Democrat, longtime (1900-32) New York Democratic National Committeeman, publisher of Buffalo's Sunday & Daily Times (sold to Scripps-Howard in 1929 at an estimated price of $5,000,000); of asthma & heart trouble; in Buffalo. Famed as New York's "original Bryan man," he fought for three Bryan nominations (1896, 1900. 1908), stayed regular-party in 1904 when Bryan split. Long a fighter for Prohibition modification, he lined up last February for Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President, resigned his National Committeemanship after the convention...