Word: parson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South Dakota State School of Mines (Rapid City) Stratosphere Balloonist Orvil A. Anderson ... D.E. Secretary Arthur Barrette Parson of American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers...
Though it traces its descent back almost 100 years to William ("Parson") Brown-low's famed Tennessee Whig, the Knoxville Journal has had a stormy career. A Republican sheet in Republican East Tennessee, the Journal had its politics spectacularly reversed overnight when swashbuckling Democratic Promoters Luke Lea & Rogers Clark ("Bank on the South") Caldwell bought the paper in 1928. With the collapse of Caldwell's Southern banking and publishing empire (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930), the Journal regained its Republican editorial policy, limped along under the jury-rig of a receivership, with able General Manager Robert H. Clagett keeping...
...behind the camera. A purely objective view may not be misleading but it often leads nowhere. The widespread popularity of such subjective photography as Walter Duranty's I Write As I Please, Vincent Sheean's Personal History, John Gunther's Inside Europe, Negley Parson's The Way of a Transgressor are strong indications that many an individual still regards the cameraman as more important than the camera. Last week such individuals watched with interest the latest subjective newsreel, Edmund Wilson's Travels in Two Democracies. At first sight merely a notebook of scattered impressions...
...church," runs the clerical proverb, "means a dead parson." No fragile parson is J. Duncan Spaeth, who, at 67, has a voice so thundering that it routs other professors from adjoining classrooms when Dr. Spaeth chooses to pull out his vocal stops, impersonate Shylock or Othello in the grand manner. Last October the trustees of three-year-old University of Kansas City reached him by long-distance telephone, reminded him that his age would automatically retire him from Princeton soon, coaxed him to become their University's first president (TIME, Oct. 14). J. Duncan Spaeth roared, spluttered, accepted...
...next day and said it might be hard to get a seat: "I do not know what you may do for a place. For my own part. I am sure of one. You must make what shift you can." On the scaffold he bore himself so cheerfully that the parson in attendance was somewhat disgruntled. When the ax fell, the crowd groaned, and someone said: "We have not another such head...