Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committees: Benjamin a. Barnes '40, Social Service; Joseph S. Stern, Jr., '40, Speakers; Harry W. Hollmeyer '40, Library; Harry Newman, Jr. '42, Freshman; Archibald M. McMillan 1Dv. and Roger Schafer '41, Foreign Students; William B. Daughaday '40, Arthur W. Page, Jr. '40 and Benjamin Wilcox, Jr. '40, Senior Advisory; Robert E. Russell '41, Information; and J. Warren Palm '40, Handbook Committee...
Presiding at the meeting was Robert L. Green '39 acting in his position as Second Marshal while Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Emeritus served as usual in his position as honorary judge. The judges were Mr. Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe, Mr. William James and Archibald MacLeish, curator of the Nieman collection of contemporary journalism...
Nine men were appointed to the Circulation Board of the Freshman Red Book, Frederick W. H. Bradley, chairman of the Circulation Board announced last night. The nine were Albert M. Chandler, Jr., Robert F. Cutting, 2nd, William P. Jacobs, William D. Jones, Harrison F. Lyman, Jr., Nicholas Savage, Gilbert A. S. Stewart, Jr., Boland M. Urfirer and William Wood...
...Author grew up in the Kentucky tobacco country described in Night Rider. Lanky, redheaded, softspoken, Robert ("Red") Penn Warren, 34, has written a biography of John Brown, a volume of verse (Thirty-Six Poems), a number of short stories, is an editor of The Southern Review, best of current U. S. literary quarterlies. Night Rider is his first novel. A literary gamut-runner, who works day & night, he is now writing a play about the contemporary South. He was educated at Vanderbilt, Yale, Oxford, the University of California. Since 1934 he has been an English professor at Louisiana State University...
Never disparaged was Gouverneur Morris' earlier record. He was spokesman at 26 for Washington at the Continental Congress; brilliant assistant to the "financier of the Revolution," Robert Morris (no kin); leading framer and "stylist" of the Constitution; first U. S. minister to France. But his name has come down as the "notorious aristocrat" who intrigued with Louis XVI against the French Revolution; who deliberately let his archenemy, Tom Paine, rot in Luxembourg Prison; who speculated in U. S. lands, wheat, tobacco, the public debt...