Word: waldo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LETTERS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON-Edited by Ralph Leslie Rusk-Columbia (6 vols...
...years ago, shocked into action by the silicosis scandal of Gauley Bridge, W. Va.* (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936), the National Committee for People's Rights (founded by Theodore Dreiser in 1931, supported by contributions from such literati as Louis Adamic, Hamilton Basso, John Chamberlain, Waldo Frank) sent a committee to Tri-State to study the health of the miners. Among the committee members: Economist James Raymond Walsh of Hobart College, Sociologist Esther Lucile Brown of the Russell Sage Foundation, Dr. Adelaide Helen Ross Smith, Manhattan silicosis expert, Socialite Sheldon Dick, Manhattan photographer...
That is the way Poet Robert Lee Frost, sitting in the new Ralph Waldo Emerson Chair of Poetry,* talked to some 40 reverently attentive students at Harvard University last week. No newcomer to Harvard or to teaching, Robert Frost was successively English Professor at Amherst, and Poet in Residence at the University of Michigan; at Harvard for three years gave the popular Charles Eliot Norton poetry lectures. Harvard hopes he will sit in the Emerson Chair for at least two years...
...vote of the Harvard Corporation, Robert Frost, thrice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and first holder of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Followship in Poetry, has been appointed an Associate of Adams House, it was announced yesterday...
Twelve U. S. correspondents were authorized to go. For the New York Herald Tribune Edward Angly replaced Ralph Waldo Barnes, who underwent an operation for gallstones last fortnight, was still in hospital. To London by Atlantic Clipper Hearst's International News Service rushed William Chaplin when Chief Correspondent William Hillman resigned to become European Manager for Collier...