Word: schieffelin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Christians to take a personal pledge to boycott German goods, boats and territory are being rounded up by a committee suggested by Christopher T. Emmet Jr. of Stony Brook, L. I., headed by Dr. William Jay Schieffelin of Manhattan's Citizens' Union, assisted by Presidents Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College and Frank P. Graham of University of North Carolina, President Oliver La Farge of the American Association on Indian Affairs, Editor Guy Emery Shipler of the Churchman...
Well able to do a problem in Euclid is Fellow Schieffelin Claytor, of Washington, D. C., whose studies on "Locally Planar Continua" have been presented before the American Mathematical Society. Parsing a Greek verb is child's play to Fellow Frank M. Snowden Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., who won honors in Greek and Latin at Harvard, will study further at Harvard and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece...
...object, the publisher of the Arizona Star sold 25 copies of LIFE over his own counter in defiance of the police. The Memphis Press-Scimitar contrasted the local ban on LIFE with open sale at the same time of Sex Guide, The Nudist and Tattle Tales. Though William Jay Schieffelin, vice president of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, thought "LIFE rendered a public service by picturing in a decent way the facts about the birth of a baby which every child should know," New York State's Knights of Columbus complained to New York City...
Despite the fact that he had been one of the defeated candidates himself, P. R.'s "father," public-spirited Chemist William Jay Schieffelin, and such P. R. enthusiasts as Liberal Lawyer Morris Ernst remained stubbornly faithful to their device. They pointed out that with experienced counters Cincinnati had cut its counting time to a week and Cleveland to three days. If the city would authorize the voting machines for which Tammany's late board of estimate refused to appropriate $2,000.000. they claimed that P. R. ballots might be disposed of in one day. That Tammany...
...Harlem district. As a friend of the working man he called for a Congressional investigation and witnesses. Quickly formed in Manhattan was a National Gauley Bridge Committee to which such notables as Professor Haven Emerson of Columbia University, Socialist Norman Thomas and Drug Manufacturer William Jay Schieffelin subscribed. They paid expenses to Washington of a few Gauley Bridge residents to testify before Congressman Marcantonio's Committee, which by last week had heard the following evidence...