Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phillips Brooks House--the social service center, the Memorial Chapel and the University Church, University Hall--housing the central and academic administrative offices, employment bureaus, information office, etc., Widener Memorial Library, the President's House, Lehman Hall--housing the financial and business administrative offices, the following classrooms, Hunt Hall (Robinson Annex), Robinson, Sever, Holden, Emerson, Harvard, Boylston, and Wadsworth House--home of Military Science and the Alumni Office...
Today, Episcopal High School is no longer a high school (its six-year course embraces prep school and junior college), and among its students are many boys from the North. But it keeps its old flavor. Its principal, Archibald Robinson ("Flick") Hoxton, 63, was born on the campus, the son of an associate principal of the school. Short, brown-and-silver-haired Flick Hoxton, a great Southern school athlete, got his nickname either from his habit of lying in bed and spitting out the window or from his extraordinary quickness of hand. Standing at the blackboard before his class...
...being conducted by Hollywood studios to persuade the U. S. Department of Justice that there is real competition in the cinema business is a competitive race to the screen with accounts of how a mettlesome, unsleeping special prosecutor breaks up rackets. In I Am the Law, Edward G. Robinson looks less like New York's District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey than Chester Morris did (Smashing the Rackets) or Walter Abel (Racket Busters). He plays the part of a law school professor, an authority on criminal law, absentminded, mild as milk. On a leave of absence from his teaching...
...five years since Franklin Roosevelt began his vigil over business morals, FTC has disposed of twice as many com plaints as in the previous five years-and the commission has been rewarded for its vigilance: 1) the 1936 Robinson-Patman Act extended its jurisdiction over price discrimination; 2) the 1938 Wheeler-Lea amendment to the original Federal Trade Commission Act relieved it of the necessity of proving that unfair trade practices injured competitors and allowed the commission to go to court to obtain remedies; 3) this year the Government provided the commission with a new home...
Speeches were made by Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, the orchestra's President Bentley Wirt Warren, Festival President Gertrude Robinson Smith. The audience, accompanied by the orchestra, sang the Luther-Bach chorale, Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott. Thus was dedicated the permanent home of the latest candidate for an "American Salzburg." Tanglewood, a large Stockbridge estate where Author Nathaniel Hawthorne used to live, was deeded by its owners to the Boston Symphony two years ago. After a concert was spectacularly rained out of a large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise...