Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film colony. Merritt Hulburd, will fill his vacancy on the Post. Merritt Hulburd, Graeme Lorimer's classmate (1923) and fraternity brother (Psi U) at the University of Pennsylvania, persuaded Samuel Goldwyn to tear up his contract, which had over three years to run, so that he could return to the magazine he left six years ago. Two other associate editors taken on in 1937 are Stuart Rose, Ladies' Home Journal fiction editor who does not take office until February, and Joseph St. George Bryan III, a parsimonious Virginian who edits the "Post Scripts" page and contributed...
...remarked sweetly: "You are efficient, and I'd prefer to see you continue rather than have another company come in and offer us more favorable terms, say 30? or 40? gas." Ten days later he filed suit against U. G. I. and the Municipal Gas Commission demanding the "return...
...firewood, candles to two tenants in his condemned three-room flat, at rental of 5? per day. When he developed a sore foot and was unable to go out for wood, they refused to pay rent. Final compromise: the tenants agreed to bring their landlord food, firewood, candles in return for free lodging...
...upon the social sciences look for vocational studies as its inevitable corallary. Yet making Harvard a vocational school would not only be contradicting the respectable cultural traditions of past presidents, but also those of the University's present head. President Conant has made it plain that he desires a return to the "liberal arts"; he has spent much effort to develop a program whereby both the student and the public may become conscious of our American civilization and interested in its general progress. It does not seem that neither he nor even the Harvard student wants the college to become...
...activities connected with government control of business. While a member of the Federal Trade Commission in 1933, he helped draft the Securities Act. In the next year he was appointed to the Securities Exchange Commission, and became its chairman in 1935. He held this post until his recent return to Harvard...