Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, after a bracing yachting trip on the Potomac with Associate Justices Felix Frankfurter and Harlan F. Stone, the President made an announcement which sent the General Staff into a glad quickstep. His limited emergency proclamation last month gave him clear authority to increase the enlisted strength of Army, Navy, Marine Corps and National Guard, said the President; therefore he had the implied authority to spend the necessary money, and he intended to go ahead, ask Congress afterwards...
...Yale-in-China campus has so far escaped bombs and fires.) But Changsha would serve as a stepping stone to China's southwesternmost provinces, which are the last open doors to the Western World. If and when the Japanese control those provinces, they will have practically all there...
...knowledge of Epstein's work to deny his excellence as a sculptor. Such creations as DAY and NIGHT, GENESIS and ORIOL, ROSS show a new and invigorating vision completely free from academic stodginess. In many respects Epstein occupies the same relative position in his medium of expression, that of stone, as James Joyce does in the world of the novel, and his work is as difficult to grasp as Joyce's. To the religious person, the ADAM looms large as a distasteful desecration of the scriptures; some people gaze in silent admiration; others use the statue as the butt...
...trouble with banks is that they all have vacuous names, stone fronts, impenetrable vaults, courteous tellers, identical services. In Pasadena, Calif, the president of First Trust & Savings Bank (assets: $16,331,000), tall, easy, white-haired James S. (for Smellie) MacDonnell, now 62, long ago found a way to kick his bank into the public eye. In 1917, as cashier, he won local fame by writing persuasive ads for the Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives. Since then, as president, he has sporadically taken advertising space in the Pasadena Post and Star News (morning and evening twins of conservative Pasadena...
Robert G. Stone, of Boston, editor of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, has been appointed Re- search Fellow of Harvard's Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory...