Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Postgraduate," he went back into Yale's rush-line and for that season became the darling of every Yale football enthusiast. With Rusher Heffelfinger at left of centre and Rusher Stanford Newel Morison (also of Minneapolis) at right of centre, that Yale team plowed a wide furrow through its adversaries from which grew a harvest of lasting football fame. Rushers Heffelfinger and Morison, though, had helpful teammates: John Augustus Hartwell (now a famed Manhattan surgeon) in the line; Thomas Lee McClung (onetime [1909-1912] Treasurer of the U. S.) and Vance Criswell McCormick (Democratic National Committee Chair-man in Wilson...
...knew that Rykov, described by New York's Evening Post as "a pale, sticky engineer of lowly birth," was a leader of the "Right Opposition" in the Communist Party; that glutinous Rykov had great influence among the peasants in the country districts, and that these peasants, despite ten years of ceaseless atheistic propaganda, remain hopelessly devout...
...father-in-law finally said: "Well, Mac, I'll have to admit with reluctance that you were right in taking the air." For a decade after that, however, "Mac" let two of his sons who were in the Army Air Corps during the War, do the flying for the family...
...Taplins argued that the Van Sweringens should not be allowed to vote their Nickel Plate and Alleghany holdings, inasmuch as the Interstate Commerce Commission last month (TIME, April 29) ordered the Nickel Plate to "divest" itself of its Wheeling stock. Therefore, the Taplins argued, the Van Sweringens had no right to vote stock which they had acquired and were holding in defiance of the I. C. C. Compromising, the Van Sweringens voted to adjourn the meeting until August 1, at which date the legality of their Wheeling holdings will presumably have been settled. After the motion to adjourn had been...
...appointment must be of a wholly indeterminate nature I feel no longer impelled to leave work of assured usefulness to accept the post, honorable as it is." By "indeterminate nature" Dr. Drury meant that he could not tell when he would succeed Bishop Garland, which is the in alienable right of all bishop coadjutors when their bishops retire or die. When he was nominated Dr. Drury wrote to Bishop Garland, asked him when he would retire. The Bishop, who is 62, refused to name a date. He called the Drury question "unparalleled in church history...