Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blight of any educational institution is the widespread prevalence of dull, factual examination questions demanding little but an air-ting memory. Veering away from such a danger, two recent trends at Harvard have approached the problem from different directions, both pointing toward a more successful criterion than factual memory. The value of the first trend, substitution of more general exam questions attacking a broad subject from a particular angle, has been recognized by practically every department, even in the most technical sciences. On the other hand, the second trend, the use of essays, papers and short theses in place...
...void, the story and production had grip. But the only explanation for the badly panicked thousands-who evidently had neither given themselves the pleasure of familiarizing themselves with Wells's famous book nor had the wit to confirm or deny the catastrophe by dialing another station-is that recent concern over a possible European Armageddon has badly spooked the U. S. public...
...National Defense Power Committee was appointed by Franklin Roosevelt in September when the recent European crisis was getting hot. Headed by Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson, it includes such New Deal dynamos as Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen. Last week's announcement, result of several quiet conferences between utility magnates and the Administration powers, was seen in various lights by the utility men. One said: "They wanted ballyhoo and we gave it to them." Chairman Floyd Carlisle of Consolidated Edison Co. would only say: "We are delighted to make the studies with the Government.'' Mr. Groesbeck...
...Created a new body to watch newspaper and radio advertising. FTC set up a Radio & Periodical Division to administer provisions of the recent Wheeler-Lea Act. Appointed director was an FTC trial lawyer with the extraordinary name of PGad Morehouse. PGad is a contraction of Peter Gad, given name of Mr. Morehouse's grandfather...
...considers him the first U. S. novelist, likes Hemingway and the novels of Dashiell Hammett), he was amazed at the remoteness of U. S. writing men from world problems. In Hollywood he made three money-raising speeches, made a bigger impression on Hollywood's writing colony than any recent visiting celebrity except Hemingway. Aloof, he would speak only through an interpreter, cocked a quizzical, disapproving eye when his French was badly translated. His hosts saw him unbend only when he ate his first alligator pear and when he got tight in Los Angeles' Olvera Street...