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Sprague has been outspoken in his criticism of the administration, reputedly characterizing the President as politically minded instead of economically minded. He is said to have rated Professor Warren, the gold program spon- sor, as a "good agricultural economist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sprague's Resignation Comes After Six-Day Postponement | 11/22/1933 | See Source »

Secretary Harte reached retirement age in 1925 but stayed on the job until 1930, saw his building completed. As his succes sor the Y. M. C. A. chose "the luckiest man in the War." Lieut. Waldo Huntley Heinrichs. A onetime Y. M. C. A. man in Honolulu and in India, Lieut. Heinrichs went from theological seminary into avia tion. He saw Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt shot down in France, had three escapes from death in mid-air himself. In the Battle of St. Mihiel he fell 3,000 ft., got off with ten wounds. He won a Croix de Guerre with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On Julian's Way | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...William Alexander Craigie, profes sor at the University of Chicago, co-editor of Oxford Dictionary Litt.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Experiment Surveyed | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...grey-walled amphitheatre on Northwestern University's McKinlock (downtown Chicago) Campus last week a short, stocky, professor with a twinkle in his eye told how the deaf may hear through their fingers by means of an invention he had perfected. The profes- sor: Dr. Robert Harvey Gault, 57, for 22 years professor of psychology at Northwestern. The invention: the Gault Teletactor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Teletactor | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...sack coat, flowing black tie and shell bound spectacles-he was like a comic in a cinema until he sat down, cuddled his instrument under a great black arm and began to play. Then did the skeptics in the audience forget altogether the guitar of the barbershop ballads. Sor, Malats, Tarrega, Torroba, Grandaos, Albeniz and even a suite of the great Johann Sebastian Bach were played, with an amazing virtuosity and an infinite variety of tonal color. Some moments the music was bright, crackling like a harp's chord, then full, glowing like an E 'cello. Always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Guitar | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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