Word: public
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he would leave to the nation all his private papers since 1910 (numbering some 8,000,000 items) if admirers would build, with private funds, a repository for them at Hyde Park on land which he would donate, and if Congress would keep it up in perpetuity with public funds. Last week this offer lay before the House for acceptance. To Mr. Roosevelt's admirers' dismay, it was declined...
Repercussions of the recent controversy over the adoption of the new Faculty tenure system were seen in Professor Burbank's resignation. Although the noted public finance expert could not be reached for a statement, his resignation is generally interpreted as a protest against the new tenure scale, which he is understood to have opposed on the grounds that it will be detrimental to the best interests of the younger man in his department...
...Public service with 26, journalism 23, advertising 15, writing and banking 13, actuarial sciences, architecture, and foreign service with 11 complete the list of occupations carrying more than ten Seniors...
Since then the trust-busting division has been queasy of talking to industries it was prosecuting, fearful of laying itself open to the indignation of hard-boiled Federal Judges, and of public suspicion that it is using criminal inquiries as clubs to beat recalcitrant monopolists into a New Deal pattern. Last week, however, Harry Hopkins' Department of Commerce stepped into the advisory breach, announced a new Government service for harried antitrust case defendants...
Although Atlas paid him $35,000 per year, Alex Gumberg had no title and his duties were vague. He handled public relations, sat in on negotiations, represented Atlas officially or unofficially in some cor porations that big Atlas controls. Did a financial reporter need some hard-to-get information? Alex Gumberg could and would get it for him. Did the Russian Ambassador want to justify Purges to the Press? Alex Gumberg arranged an off-the-record dinner-in the name of the Nation...