Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poem to be written and read by Robert Frost, and an oration by Bronislaw Malinowski, professor of Anthropology at the University of London, will be features of the literary exercises of the Harvard University Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this year...
...until 3:30. Was he ill? asked a committeeman. "No," said Mr. Downey. "My Duty." At 3:20 Dr. Townsend stalked into the room, his gaunt face drawn and grey. Trembling, he approached the committee table, said in a near-whisper: "I have a statement I desire to read to this committee." Chairman Bell explained that he would first have to examine the statement, asked to see it. Ignoring him, Dr. Townsend crumpled the paper in his hand, straightened his bony shoulders. "In view of the apparent unfriendly attitude of the committee," quavered he, "and the unfair attitude...
...Deal, lifted his vibrant voice in the Senate to excoriate Works Progress Administration. Scornfully he cried: "We are told over and over again by the President, Hopkins and Farley that there is no politics in relief. . . . No politics in relief! . . ." On firmer ground than when he read a canned speech about the poor having to eat canned dog-food (TIME, May 11), Senator Dickinson thereupon read into the Congressional Record, without giving any names, a letter written by "a gentleman who holds one of the highest offices in the Federal Government." The letter in full as later ferreted...
Engraved "invites" have been sent nationwide by the Princeton front office. They read: "The national Council of the Veterans of Future Wars requests the pleasure of your company at a Treasury Raid and Bonus disbursement on Monday, the fifteenth of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-six at three o'clock, in the City of Washington. Dancing in the streets from four until six. R.S.V.P. Formal...
26th.--Lay too long for breakfast; so, up, and to the office all morning where I hear much talk of the Crimson's September Tercentenary issues, and very sore at heart I shall not be here to work and read the many fine articles which are promised even, perhaps, from President Roosevelt and Dr. Lowell...