Word: saxon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Yale Economist Olin Glenn Saxon, the Research Division was digging up the New Deal's past, present & future, grinding out scores of handbooks, pamphlets, leaflets, dodgers chiefly devoted to broken promises and taxes (TIME, Sept. 14). Within it nestled a special Landon speechwriting group, membership unrevealed. But busy at headquarters were Nominee Landon's onetime personal researchers, Charles Phelps Taft II, Earl Howard Taylor, Ralph West Robey, who were transferred from Topeka when the press spotlighted them as a Landon brain trust (TIME...
...plans of President Dunster and his collaborators reveal clearly what the university tradition meant to the Anglo-Saxon world of the seventeenth century. Harvard's founders insisted on the "collegiate way of living," thus recognizing the importance of student life. They knew the educational values which arise from the daily intercourse between individual students and between student and tutor. Their concept of professional training was, to be sure, largely cast in terms of the ministry, but they envisaged also training in the law and medicine. The liberal arts educational tradition they transplanted in toto from the colleges which they...
...academic corps of fact & figure men working in Washington under Yale Economist Olin G. Saxon completes the Intelligence Division with which Nominee Landon is moving into his campaign. Republicans who have long sneered at the Roosevelt "brain trust" may be spared some embarrassment by their nominee's tactful word-juggling in referring to his helpers, but the fact remains that he, no less than Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, has been compelled to acknowledge that a Presidential program for the modern U. S. must be the product of many minds. With no other statement in You And I-And Roosevelt...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN: DOCTOR OF LETTERS, of Cambridge, England, Regins Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University since 1927. "An English historian whose wise reinterpretation of the family history delights and instructs the Anglo-Saxon cousins on this side of the Atlantic...
...term mole refers to two separate kinds of growths in the body: 1) a soft, fleshy mass (Latin mola) in the womb, caused by an ovum which started to become a baby but failed; 2) a pigmented spot (Anglo-Saxon mael) in the skin. According to Dr. Affleck, Mole No. 2 "may occur anywhere on the surface of the body, in the mucous membranes of the upper and lower ends of the digestive tube, and in the eye." It may be covered with coarse hairs. In color it ranges from light brown to black. Color is due to a pigment...