Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Hindmarsh is assistant dean in charge of scholarships and takes up the problem of financial aid offered to the student by the University. His key statement is selected by the Alumni Bulletin in a brief editorial paragraph as being, "it may be said that no student possessed of normal physique and proved intellectual promise need be compelled because of financial reasons to withdraw from Harvard College...
Into the address which he was to read to the annual Associated Press luncheon in Manhattan this week, President Walter Sherman Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., largest corporation in the land, had the wit to put a paragraph which the Press would surely quote...
Your issue of March 30, end of second complete paragraph, has-"In March the British 5th Army under General Gough ran before the last desperate German offensive." This, sir, is a pretty swinish thins to write: the sth Army did not run before any attack, at any time. My own battalion-one of all those who stood and fought-was reduced to about 80 men out of (on the 21st) some 790. The '"bite" resulted from the lack of reserves to support the first three lines in those last days of the month...
...reader of The New Republic since 1914 and an admirer of the writings of Walter Lippmann wishes to express his appreciation of your column under The Press during the week of March 30. "A Testament'' is very timely. It causes one to recall the closing paragraph in the ninth volume of Henry Adams' History of the. United States. "The traits of American character were fixed; the rate of physical and economical growth was established; and history, certain that at a given distance of time the Union would contain so many millions of people, with wealth valued...
...dense, but read as I will I can make nothing but nonsense out of your People paragraph (TIME, April 13) on Heywood Broun, T. W. Lamont and Cardinal Gibbons. Why shouldn't the Pope call Gibbons Gibbons? Or is that the point, that he did call him Gibbons, thus proving his infallibility? But what's so funny about that? Or isn't it supposed to be funny? But if not, why tell it as an anecdote? And if it is funny-well, I'm sorry...