Word: saxon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charlotte, N. C. is known as the "Queen City." no doubt correctly so for it is the largest and" most cosmopolitan city of the two Carolinas. Roasts of a population of more than 80,000, 95% of whom are pure Anglo Saxon...
...Saxon of Yale was a democrat until 1933. Harvard he studies under Dr. Felix Frankfurter and main inspiration of the Democratic "brain trust" Yaleman Saxon's committee of nine assistants analyzing the New Deal "to expose its fallacies...
...scholarship, I remember walking with him into the cathedral library in Exeter when he demanded that the librarian show him the famous Exeter Book, an Anglo-Saxon classic and great literary treasure nearly 700 years old. Before the librarian, Rev. Dr. Bishop, could produce the book from the safe, my friend repeated its first hundred lines in Anglo-Saxon entirely from memory, sweeping the librarian quite off his feet with astonishment...
Distinguished in appearance, impressive in speech, and Olympian in manner, he has awed class after class when he expounds the intricacies of Elizabethan interpretations, or the Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf. Today ends his forty-eighth year of classroom teaching, and in the fourth and succeeding centuries of Harvard's existence, today will be remembered for that reason alone...
...Saxon will have general charge of the research group which will be divided into sections dealing with various topics. Bullock, who is popularly supposed to have devised the Massachusetts income tax plan, and is considered a national authority on taxes, will head the section on taxation and government finance...