Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Landis left Washington in 1937, after authoring the Securities Act and serving two years as SEC chairman, Franklin Roosevelt wrote that he was leaving behind him "a great respect and appreciation for the scholar in government." Landis went back to Harvard as dean of its law school, returned to Washington in 1942 to run the Office of Civilian Defense, stayed on to do wartime and postwar economic chores in the Middle East...
...grave. Old Ed Kelly might be fidgeting with alarm. But Illinois' potent Democratic machine, which has customarily counted on tried & tested party professionals to do its toughest campaigning chores, announced last week that its 1948 ticket would be headed by 1) a gentleman and 2) a scholar...
...year-old scholar, whose works in symbolic logic and philosophy are authoritative in their field, died of a cereberal hemorrhage which followed a stroke on Christmas day. He served on the Faculty from 1924 until his retirement in 1936, and was one of the founders of the Society of Fellows...
...Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. . . . As a Christian gentleman, a thinker, a scholar, a diplomat, a patriot, he is unexcelled...
...suffered from "Injuns on the brain." Even on a tour of Switzerland, he sat on a rock "fancying myself again in the American woods with an Indian companion." His ailment, if such it was, gave strength and color to some of the most readable history written by any U.S. scholar (The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac). Parkman was born a Boston Brahmin, but spent much of his life covering, on foot and on horseback, the wild Western ground he was to write about. His journals, in some respects more valuable than his books, disappeared in 1904, barely mined...