Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Massachusetts' First Congressional District Raymond Leslie Buell, 46, scholar, foreign-affairs expert, has entered the Republican primary for Congress against Allen Towner Treadway, 74, conservative Congressman for 29 years (TIME, July 20). Quiet, bespectacled Raymond Buell is running on a one-plank platform: How can Congress be improved? Unless Congress stops playing politics and buckles down to its job, he thinks, the war may be longer, the peace might be botched. One night last week friends of Mr. Buell's came to his house in Richmond in a hayrack, carried him down to the Town Hall. There...
Last week a younger man, a scholar, editor, lecturer, challenged Oldster Treadway's right to sit longer in Congress, accused conservatives of killing the Republican Party. Pundit Raymond Leslie Buell announced that he would run on a one-plank platform: What is wrong with the membership of Congress and what can be done to improve...
...Author Wylie's story, a Midwestern ex-Rhodes Scholar comes home, after a year in blitzed London, to manufacture an incendiary bomb that will instantly burn up anything it hits. At home he finds a group of pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists. Despite a great deal of angry talk, the young bomb enthusiast manufactures no bombs, burns up nothing except his boss and the daughter of the chairwoman of the local America Forever Committee. His name is not Reality but Jimmie Bailey, and, unlike the Fifth Horseman, he never enlists with the other four...
...maps of the world, it would have won an overwhelming victory." A group of University of Minnesota professors petitioned President Roosevelt to remove Professor Renner from his job as adviser to the Civil Aeronautics Administration. When Professor Renner arrived at Minnesota soon afterward to lecture on geography teaching, Stratosphere Scholar Jean Picard rose to demand what Professor Renner meant by proposing to partition his native republic of Switzerland. Professor Renner haughtily ignored...
...must be classified under both of those heads. Announcing that Seniors "who find it difficult to pay the fee" may gain aid in order to pay it neither meets the Student Council's argument that auditing has been discouraged, nor provides any relief not already available to the needy scholar...