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Mark Van Doren read his poem, "The Case Is New," followed by prayers by Reverend William H. P. Hatch '98. The meeting was followed by a luncheon for members of the Society in the Warburg Room of the Fogg Museum...
Others appointed to named chairs are: Bart J. Bok, from professor of Astronomy to Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy; William Y. Elliott, from professor of Government to Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science; Gottfried Haberier, from professor of Economics to Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics; and Edgar B. Wilson, Jr., from professor of Chemistry to Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry...
Died. Max Warburg, 79, famed international Hamburg banker, brother of Manhattan bankers Paul and Felix Warburg; after long illness; in Manhattan. Though a Jew, he remained in his homeland after Hitler rose to power, devoted himself to aiding and rescuing Jews marked for persecution, finally in 1939 fled to the U.S., in 1944 became a U.S. citizen...
...make the blowout a success, Harriman and Assistant Paul ("Piggy") Warburg had worked overtime bullying caterers and procuring gin, bourbon and some synthetic fruit juices. There was no ice or Scotch to be had. "I thought Americans always had ice and Scotch," muttered a few disgruntled Britons, but for others the plebeian spirits did well enough. A few drunks were soon reeling here & there. The dignified staggers of U.S. junior officers drew many a disparaging glance and word from moralizing chauffeurs clustered at the entrance. Only the waiters and bartenders seemed unhappy. As the afternoon wore on they grew progressively...
Field has another, equally hush-hush, plan: to inject a bit of fresh, leftish air into rural weeklies. His partner in this project (incorporated as Cross Country Reports) is Banker-Economist James Paul Warburg, an early New Dealer, then a fervent anti (Hell Bent for Election) and finally, in 1944, a doorbell-ringer for Sidney Hillman's P.A.C. Field and Warburg's ambition is to set up as a rival to powerful Western Newspaper Union which sends boiler-plate material ("pretty reactionary") to U.S. weeklies. Says Field, grinning: "I don't think I'll make...