Word: pennsylvanian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Lyon Phelps, the effluent literary critic from New Haven, has recently stated in an interview in the Pennsylvanian that college men spend half their time studying, and that the time spent not so doing is one of the important reasons why men go to college. It is the professor's opinion that the required work could be completed in two years, but if this were done to the exclusion of extra-curricular and social activities most of the benefit to be derived from a college education would be lost...
...Pennsylvanian by birth (1873) and residence, Chairman Fletcher is a diplomat of 27 years' able foreign service. As a career man, he rose to be U. S. Ambassador to Chile (1914), Mexico (1916-20), Belgium (1922-24), Italy (1924-29), served as Assistant Secretary of State (1921-22) in charge of economic matters. The commercial aspects of international relations especially in Latin America have had much of his time and attention. He resigned as Ambassador at Rome last year, disappointed, some said, because the Hoover Administration had apparently neglected...
...Republican nomination Secretary Davis will oppose Senator Joseph Ridgway Grundy. He will get no support from his Cabinet colleague and fellow-Pennsylvanian, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, who favors Mr. Grundy's faction of the Pennsylvania G.0.P. But he will have the backing of Philadelphia's William Scott Vare, Senator-reject, whose seat Mr. Grundy now holds. When Mr. Vare withdrew as a senatorial candidate to support Mr. Davis, the Labor Secretary acknowledged the courtesy as follows: "I'm always grateful for the help of any good man." Candidate Davis makes much of the fact...