Word: professor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week Professor Riley was back in the news. The Russian press suddenly bristled with charges that Britain sought another Munich agreement. This time it would be between five big powers, with the U. S. included, the U. S. S. R. not. Why had hypocritical Mr. Chamberlain sent this Riley man to Danzig without even consulting Parliament? "Signs of a serious set-back to the attempt to get Russia into the peace pact front have to be recorded today," Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye cabled the New York Times. He could scarcely have expected how momentously right and wrong...
Like the great artists of renaissance Italy, John Steuart Curry lives on the patronage of States and institutions, paints in peace. His five-year contract with the University of Wisconsin pays him $4,000 a year, carries with it the title "Professor" and the burden of giving an occasional lecture. Still at work in Madison last week on twelve panels for the State Capitol of Kansas Curry called his Oklahoma Land Rush a picture of the same migration Novelist John Steinbeck describes in Grapes of Wrath. Said he: "Civilization went into the Territory 50 years ago on wheels...
...ketch-rigged three-master put to sea from a Brooklyn shipyard. It was captained by a famed racing yacht skipper, Paul Hammond, and among its crew were Harvard undergraduates, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow Jr. (see above) and the wife and eldest daughter of Harvard's Professor Samuel Eliot Morison. Professor Morison sat tall and erect in the bow, clutching a copy of Christopher Columbus' journal in one hand, a notepad and pencil in the other. The professor and his companions were setting out on a Harvard expedition to retrace part of Columbus' eastward and westward...
...striding stiffly across the Yard in smart riding clothes. His students admire his scholarship, enjoy his classes because he humanizes history by such devices as describing Thomas Morton's Merrymount Maypole as "a roadhouse between Boston and Plymouth at which both Indian and unscrupulous white alike got drunk." Professor Morison, an old St. Paul's boy and a High Church Episcopalian, is no Boston Brahmin. In his office, in a remote corner of Widener Library, hangs a framed letter of thanks from Sacco and Vanzetti, whose cause he championed...
...years ago Professor Morison decided to try to find out more about Columbus than he could in libraries. He had discovered that nearly all writers about Columbus were scholars ignorant of navigation, that they disagreed about whether he was history's greatest navigator or a landlubber. The professor went to the West Indies, sailed among the Lesser Antilles in a yawl, checking up on the western end of Columbus' second voyage. Last .year Professor Morison retraced part of Columbus' first voyage in a ten-day cruise around Haiti, claimed to have found the site of Navidad, first...