Word: succession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolutionary cry of equality-even equality in the matter of dying for one's country-which replaced the professional soldier with the soldier drawn from public lists. Napoleon Bonaparte, "Son of the Revolution," believed that "God marches with the biggest battalions"; in 1813, at the zenith of his success, he commanded a conscripted army of 1,140,000 men. In the wake of Napoleonic conquests most countries of Europe adopted conscription until, in the World War, some 50,000,000 men were compulsorily drafted into service...
...Ginger Rogers has one overwhelming advantage over Irene Castle: the cinema. Although she is now a worldwide legend, only a few thousand people saw Irene Castle dance. The Wartime movies which The Castles shows her making were not a tremendous success. When Rogers and Astaire first danced together in Flying Down to Rio, movie producers were still apprehensive that audiences would not be enthusiastic about full-length dances on the screen. Rogers and Astaire light-footedly kicked that apprehension into a cocked hat, and in the process (eight pictures) have grossed a total of $18,000.000 for RKO. Irene Castle...
When Granville Hicks was appointed one of the counselors in American civilization last year this paper urged "if Hicks proves a success as a councilor, that Harvard grant him a regular position on the Faculty." For some unexplained, but perhaps not inexplicable, reason neither Mr. Hicks nor any of his fellow councilors were reappointed to the jobs in which they were beginning to attain the skill that comes from experience. But what is a loss to the American Civilization plan can in this case be turning to the advantage of one of the regular departments of the University...
...appointment of Mr. Hicks to a position in the department of English could be respectfully asked merely on the basis of his recognized scholarship in the field on greatly strengthened by the success as a teacher which led 250 students to put their names to a petition demanding his retention on the basis of his work this year. Unfortunately for the head-in-sand opponents of everything Mr. Hicks stand for, the Committee of Eight published its report on tenure and appointment at the wrong time. Here is the definite statement that a university should not merely tolerate "heretics" among...
...success of the petition has decided the backers to appeal directly to the University rather than to the departments in order that immediate action can be taken...