Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President-often tried by swift Rooseveltian shifts of front that left him out on a limb-won Joe Robinson the pity and respect of the men who fought him hardest on the Senate floor. As a soldier he had the admiration of the entire Senate, even of those who thought he was a soldier worthy of a better leader...
...year-old Mrs. Dempsey and her parents, Mr. & Mrs. John T. Lythgoe, who live next door, ran out to see what was wrong. In the argument that followed, someone felled Mr. Lythgoe with a black jack, Hiram Dempsey got a black eye, Mrs. Lythgoe was hit by what she thought was Hiram Dempsey's fist. Jailed for assault & battery, Hiram Dempsey next day proudly exhibited a telegram from his famed son, onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey: "Congratulations to the new champ stop consider matching you with Joe Louis. -. ." Ill lay: Onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker...
...many a delegate thought that the Church Militant would have to be revived by philosophy. Reviewing the work of the Stockholm Conference, Professor A. Runestam of Sweden's University of Upsala mourned "a new quality, man's own devaluation of himself and his willingness to submit himself to some new authority. We need a new dynamic supernational Christianity." Theologian Emil Brunner of the University of Zurich pontificated: "That which is distinctively Christian cannot be expressed in systems and programs. . . . The Christian Church has no right to try to lay down a social program...
...been getting along smoothly with his trustees, Williams men found hard to believe. They pointed out that Tyler Dennett is a man who needs plenty of elbow room, that he quit his post as Historical Adviser to the State Department in 1931 thoroughly impatient with "bureaucracy." But no one thought that Tyler Dennett, an able, searching scholar whose John Hay biography won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize, would find it hard to get another job. This week the trustees elected as his successor one of their own number, Alumnus James Phinney Baxter III ('14). A great friend "of Tyler Dennett...
...cluster of small ones. It was his theory that with such an outfit he could keep on ascending until some of the balloons burst (because of the diminishing outside air pressure). Also, he could descend at will by putting several balloons out of commission with a pistol. He thought 2,000 four-foot rubber balloons would be enough for a record flight. Last week's ascent, using only 80 balloons, was in the nature of an experiment to test the efficacy of the method. Prof. Piccard took off from Rochester, Minn., ascended to 11,000 ft., came down...