Word: phelpses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Lyon Phelps told a Booksellers Association luncheon: "Let children read a lot of trash. And by tact and sympathy they can be led to read better books. Don't try to stuff books down their throats."
As it did last October,-price cutting spread. Some steel prices dropped as much as $11 a ton or up to 20%. Characteristically, competing automen disputed Ford's claim for credit in securing the reduction. Meanwhile, large steel orders by the motormakers are probably two months off, for the...
Sponsored by Archibald MacLeish, Curator of the Nieman Collection, authors Booth Tarkington and Thornton Wilder, and Professor William Lyon Phelps of Yale, a new Ivy-League magazine has been announced for publication in October of next year. The magazine, entitled "Harpy," will contain work of students from Harvard, Princeton and...
Professor William Lyon Phelps has been especially emphatic in his approval, saying "It is a wonder to me that nothing of this sort has been started before. There is a certain unity of sentiment among the three colleges that cannot be found in any other group of universities in this...
Canny Detroit buyers refused to bite, however, decided to wait out the copper companies. Within a few weeks American Smelting's price was down to 10?. Still most purchasers waited. Then fortnight ago Phelps Dodge jumped it back to 10½?. This priced the industry's No. 3...