Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been disbanded." Michael P. Grace '40, president, then hastened to declare that "I have his resignation in my pocket." The statements issued in the official declaration made public by Grace and those made by Hart concerning the way in which the dissolution of the executive committee took place were also conflicting...
...first startling fact that Harvard has added an admitted Communist to its staff. But Granville Hicks is better known as a scholar than as a political radical, and on an academic basis only should the merit of his appointment be judged. In selecting Mr. Hicks, the University took into account that he has produced the best historical attempt at American literature, since the Civil War and has done other valuable research work. Nowhere along the official line was there opposition to him, which is proof enough that Harvard has determined to give substance to its oft-mentioned shadow of liberalism...
Hicks was graduated from Harvard summa cum laude, next graduated from the Theological School in 1925, and four years later took a M.A. degree in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. For a brief while he taught literature at Smith from a social point of view...
...named Mark Foster Ethridge as president. But despite the inevitable newspaper headlines, no Tsar is Mark Ethridge. He is general manager of the Bingham papers in Louisville-the Courier-Journal and the Times-and he will spend more time in Louisville than he will in Washington. He took pains to make it clear last week that the N. A. B. will continue to be a trade association and nothing else. The radio industry is afflicted with various forms of static-incredibly complicated radio unions are fermenting, musicians, competing with canned music, are sullen, composers are at odds about patents...
...writing on Midwestern small-town life Author White's novel shows no trace. Born 37 years ago in Emporia, Kansas (five years after his father bought the Emporia Gazette), Author White well knows the Midwest he writes about. He knows other environments as well. At 18 his father took him to the Versailles Peace Conference. Graduated from Harvard in 1924, after a year at the University of Kansas, Author White spent the next ten years on his father's newspaper. Varying his work as reporter, he made several trips to Europe, served a term...