Word: warren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each are sufficiently amusing. The honors of the film go to Ned Sparks who suggests that the story of Aunt Jemima be told using the name of Aunt Delilah as the pegro cook who first had the recipe for the best tasting pancake batter in the world and to Warren Williams as the ichthyologist who falls in love with Colbert but cannot marry her because the daughter has fallen in love with him and the marriage would separate the mother and daughter which would be terrible judging by the experience of Aunt Delilah whose nearly white daughter has disowned...
...what they call the "Fourth City" know that Rev. Merton Stacher ("Mert") Rice of mammoth Metropolitan Methodist Church has twice declined a bishopric. Likewise nationally known in their respective churches are Presbyterian Joseph Anderson Vance, Quaker Morton C. Pearson, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin. Congregationalists Charles Haven Myers and Warren Wheeler Pickett, Disciple of Christ Edgar De Witt Jones...
...Charles Warren, former Solicitor-General of the United States and at present a member of the Board of Overseers, stated at a recent meeting of the Harvard Club of Washington that in the last analysis democracy simply amounts to "a willingness to be interested in the other fellow's point of view." He was referring to recent attacks made upon the House Plan by certain students to the effect that it breeds snobbishness and petty cliques. Mr. Warren went on to say that democracy can't be imposed upon anyone; that the most the University can do is to provide...
...Warren's point cannot be too strongly emphasized. Of course, Houses develop within themselves certain groups, each more or less homogeneous, with very little in common between the groups. But certainly more than the old dormitory system does the House Plan provide the opportunity for that exchange of views and the realization that there may be something in the other fellow's point of view, which is the essence of liberal democracy...
...resignations in November 1933 of Dr. Oliver M. W. Sprague, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance, and Dean G. Acheson, Under Secretary of the Treasury, after the Warren and Rogers experimental period with the dollar, made it clear that "so-called conservative" financial policies would not be followed. Nevertheless Mr. Douglas retained his post for ten months in the hope that he might gain the ear of the President...