Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harris will be in charge of the course. Professor Harold H. Burbank, Professor William L. Crum, Professor Alvin H. Hansen, Professor Edward S. Mason, Professor Joseph H. Schumpeter, Professor Sumner H. Slichter, Professor John H. Williams, and Paul M. Sweezy '32, instructor in Economics, will share in the teaching...
...Greeted informally coffee-colored, short Stenio Vincent, President of Haiti, in Washington to get credits for works projects. French-speaking President Vincent, now serving a second five-year term,* was referred to Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, who gave a stag dinner in his honor at Welles's Oxon Hill, Md. mansion. Mr. Vincent did not get to see Secretary Hull, nor was he officially welcomed with pomp and display. Said one Washington official: "Well, you can't get those five tanks out every...
...spring of 1928, rangy, left-handed John Hope Doeg, offshoot of California's famed tennis-playing Suttons, quit his studies at Stanford to tune up with the U. S. Davis Cup squad. Conservative President Sumner Hardy of the California Tennis Association huffed & puffed and finally howled that the Davis Cup Committee was "making bums out of young tennis players...
...cold and partly cloudy in Washington last week when President Roosevelt returned from Warm Springs. Rested after his quietest week since the war began, he stepped off the train to be greeted by a sober-visaged Secretary of State Cordell Hull, flanked by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson. The President's quietest week was over, ended by bombs falling on Helsinki by Russia's invasion of Finland...
Above all other men, Senator Sumner of Massachusetts was a scourge and a goad to the South, an exasperation to practical statesmen like Stephen A. Douglas. Handsome, imposing, humorless and incorruptible, Sumner stood in the Senate for years denouncing slaveholders as keepers of a nameless abomination; yet he had nothing whatever to say as to how $4,000,000,000 in slave property could be liquidated. "He seemed to insist," says Sandburg, "that he could be an insolent agitator and a perfect gentleman both at once. His critics held that he was either a skunk or a white swan...