Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month the Czech Communist government brought obviously phony charges of espionage against a Czech-born U.S. citizen named Samuel Meryn, a clerk at the American embassy in Prague. In a formal note of protest the U.S. State Department vainly demanded his release. Last week blunt, able Ellis Briggs, new U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia, presented his credentials to Czech President Klement Gottwald. In the golden days of diplomacy, the presentation of credentials was considered an occasion unfit for the transaction of business. But Briggs, no man to be silenced by diplomatic niceties, used the formal occasion to bring up some...
...after irate citizens had banished from exhibition a plaster cast of the Discobolus, famed Roman copy of a Myron statue, because the discus thrower was nude, Novelist Samuel (The Way of All Flesh) Butler wrote a satirical ode to the city...
...chemical engineering and certificates of graduation in fine arts, graphic arts and architecture. Three evenings a week there were public lectures in the Great Hall on subjects ranging from atomic fission to Indonesian dances. Among the Union's eminent alumni had been Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Labor Leader Samuel Gompers, Scientist-Inventor Michael Pupin. Moreover, Cooper Union had served as inspiration for a number of privately endowed technical schools (e.g., Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology) across the country...
Died. William D. Mahon, 88, veteran labor leader and oldtime crony of the late Samuel Gompers in organizing the A.F.L., for 53 years (until he retired in 1946) president of what is now the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America; in Detroit...
...Clara Clemens Samassoud, daughter of Samuel (Mark Twain) Clemens, sued Columbia Pictures for $300,000 for filming his The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, as "a corny love story...