Word: paxson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington press corps, in response to a summons promising them "the greatest human interest story" in the six years of the Roosevelt Presidency. There they found Franklin Roosevelt, beaming but serious. He had just been host to an impressive array of luncheon guests: Historians Charles A. Beard, Frederic L. Paxson, William E. Dodd. Samuel Eliot Morison; President Frank Porter Graham of the University of North Carolina and President Edmund Ezra Day of Cornell; Economist Stuart Chase and Poet Archibald MacLeish; Mr. Roosevelt's biographer, Ernest Lindley, and his literary handy man, Samuel I. Rosenman; Frank C. Walker, former director...
...occurred an important shift in the West. Dr. John Donald Hicks, distinguished dean of the college of arts & sciences of the University of Nebraska, resigned to become professor of American history at Dr. Glenn Frank's University of Wisconsin. He will replace Pulitzer-prizewinning (1924) Professor Frederic Logan Paxson, who next session will be teaching history at the University of California. Chief reason for both changes is financial: Wisconsin pays better than Nebraska, California better than Wisconsin. In Dr. Hicks's case there is another important reason. Said he: "I would rather be known as a historian than...