Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family homestead, Maple Bluff Farm near Madison, there acted as best man at his Senator-Brother's wedding (see p. 56). The bride: Rachel Wilson Young, since 1924 secretary to the Robert La Follettes, ? father & son. So sudden were the marriage plans that the Senator had to obtain special abrogation of the Wisconsin five-day application...
...Harvard Lectures were established at Yale in 1905 by an anonymous Harvard graduate to obtain members of the Harvard Faculty to give lectures at Yale. Professor McIlwain is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and his book, "The American Revolution," won the Pulitzer prize...
...great feat of logic to perceive that good teaching probably does not obtain unless the is a strong faculty. Furthermore, it should be obvious that money is necessary to build up, even to maintain a great faculty. In the past six years and in the next two, Harvard will have disbursed over $30,000,000 towards the improvement of her buildings. It is time to ask a question of vital importance to the University. When is provision going to be made to insure a corresponding advance in the quality of Harvard's faculty...
...years, five times as long as General Lee commanded his armies, the battle of Stone Mountain has been waged between Sculptor Borglum, committees, women's clubs, politicians. At the last attempt to obtain a financial accounting from the backers of the memorial, at least $800,000 had been collected from schoolchildren, sentimentalists, and spent. The Federal Government was persuaded to issue special Stone Mountain half dollars. Of these 1,400,000 were sold at $1 each; 700,000 are stored in the Federal Reserve Bank at Atlanta. In 1925, largely as a result of a political feud between Clark Howell...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...