Word: sumner
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American colleges and universities stand in danger of "losing out in the competition for the best brains among the young men" become of the current low scale of salaries paid to professors, states Sumner H. Slichter, Lamout University Professor, in an article published in the last issue of the Bulletin of the American Association of Professors...
...last July, four months after appearing in bookstores, it was rescued from imminent obscurity. Grey-haired, bespectacled 70-year-old John S. Sumner; executive secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, decided it endangered public morals. He got a court order against Doubleday & Co., Inc., its publishers, set Manhattan cops to raiding bookstores and Manhattan citizens to hunting copies as zealously as they hunted steaks...
...intervention in Argentine domestic affairs (no more such frowns). This is not only a reversal of Spruille Braden's policy, which preceded Messersmith's advent in Argentina, but a reaffirmation of one of the cardinal aims of the Good Neighbor Policy, established by Franklin Roosevelt and Sumner Welles...
...early '30s, when the Good Neighbor Policy was instituted, the man to whom policy mainly meant words was good, grey Secretary of State Cordell Hull; the man to whom it meant deeds was glacial Under Secretary Sumner Welles. Today, Hull's position has been taken by Spruille Braden, who is still Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs, and George Messersmith's immediate boss. The chief exponent of the philosophy that policy means deeds (or tactics and approach) is George Messersmith...
...customers are mainly Cambridge folk, but Sumner feels that the presence of college students with their quick reactions and greater responsiveness, helps put over his shows with the rest of the audience. Sumner, who believes that the present-day Harvard student is a great deal more serious than his predecessors, states that "the elimination of the tutoring schools around the Square a decade ago really changed the College man. You fellows have to work to stay around here...