Word: professor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moley, Moley, Moley, Lord God Almighty" was a much-quoted squib in Washington during the first New Deal, when Professor Raymond Moley was indeed mighty in the Brain Trust. While Mr. Moley was serving Franklin Roosevelt and accumulating a reputation for vanity, he was also storing away a vast stock of personal notes, memoranda and unwritten recollections. Last week the written sum of it appeared in book form, a good 20 years before Franklin Roosevelt might normally have expected himself and his early administration to be thus exposed from within...
...Charles Wharton Stork, a professor of English from Bryn Mawr, Pa., survived the Athenia, got passage home on the U. S. freighter Wacosta. Off the Irish coast, a submarine stopped the Wacosta with a shot across her bows. Only person who volunteered to talk German with the Nazi commander who came aboard was Professor Stork. After searching the Wacosta this officer said (Stork translation): "We are not so very barbarous, are we? Except that I do need a shave. . . . I'll see you in New York at a tea dance...
...Italian secret police three weeks ago arrested Professor Guido Gomella, editorial writer for the semi-official Vatican City daily, Osservatore Romano, apparently because he wrote a series of articles impartial toward Britain and France. By last week the Roman circulation of impartial Osservatore Romano had jumped from 40,000 in August...
...present broadcasts in German "are aimed at Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries," Professor Cross explains. The program is on the air between 4 and 5 o'clock Monday afternoons, on a wave length of 11,70 kilocycles or 25.4 meters...
...Professor Cross's background for his new avocation goes beyond the academic. For six years after graduating from Harvard he served in the foreign service of the Department of Commerce; part of that time as commercial attache at Brussels and the Hague, and for the remainder as the Department's European chief...