Word: sullivans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Meantime the President had under way his own investigation of the New York Stock Exchange-an investigation conducted by a committee consisting of Professor John Dickinson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Undersecretary of the Treasury Dean Acheson, Braintruster Adolf Augustus Berle Jr., and Arthur Dean of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. Their purpose: not to drag scandal to public view but to see how the Exchange's merits balance its demerits, to recommend under what form it should be allowed to continue to exist...
...RETURN of RAFFLES - Barry Perowne-Day ($2). Raffles and Bunny, resurrected, repaired and rejuvenated, share three adventures. Plentifully supplied with Sullivan cigarets, they assist the Law, gather a bit of "nobody's money" on the side...
...collections are complete enough to satisfy any taste, and are generally accompanied by music rooms with pianos and victrolas so that any resident may hear whatever music he likes. The students have not been slow to take advantage of these opportunities; in Lowell House alone, Brahms' First Symphony and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" were each played fifty times in a few months, even more than the bells...
...Annie Sullivan was then 21, Helen Keller, 7. She found Helen a spoiled, sturdy little animal, apparently hopelessly limited and given to wild tantrums when crossed. Annie isolated herself with her hardly human charge, first disciplined her into docility, then won her affection. After the first weeks it was apparently plain sailing, but full watches all the way. Says Teacher Macy: "A less vigorous child could never have done what she has done, and a less robust woman than I was would have gone to pieces under the strain." Her first job was to establish communication, which...
...woman now (she is 67), Anne Sullivan Macy realizes that she has given her whole life to another person; she does not regret it. Says she: "We do not, I think, choose our destiny. It chooses...