Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NOAH WEBSTER: SCHOOLMASTER TO AMERICA-Harry R. Warfel-Macmillan ($3.50). Though Webster and dictionary are synonymous in the U. S., Noah Webster's posthumous fame is cloudy. He is often confused with Daniel Webster (no kin), and his multitudinous activities have faded from popular memory. Last week, in a full-length biography of Noah Webster, the first in 50 years, Author Warfel dusted the cobwebs off this early Yankee, showed him as a genuine and valuable antique...
...longtime admirer of Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan of Milwaukee, I wish to congratulate TIME on the fine story "Marxist Mayor": but, as a loyal alumnus of the University, of Wisconsin, I protest against the statement that the professors at that institution had 'seemed never to have heard" of Socialism. Neither do I believe that it has been necessary for any Wisconsin student of the past 40 years to "stumble on the teachings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
...eight out of twelve other Socialist candidates for the council, defeated Socialist candidates for city treasurer and city controller, rejected a Socialist proposal for municipal ownership of the local electric company. Milwaukee further demonstrated the extent of its current Red scare (TIME, April 6) when it returnedSocialist Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan to City Hall for his seventh term by 111,167 votes to 97,124 for his Non-Partisan opponent, Sheriff Joseph John Shinners-a majority only one-third as large as that non-Socialist city gave its famed Marxist Mayor...
...minister of any sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in the said College; nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor." When Stephen Girard's French kin tried to break the will, their advocate, Daniel Webster, carried the plea to the U. S. Supreme Court, where he eloquently protested against "a cruel experiment upon these orphans to shut them up and make them the victims of a philosophical speculation. ... If the courts should set this will aside ... it would be the crowning mercy of my professional...
...successful candidates for the Editorial Board. They are: James English and Calvin W. Stillman, sub-chairmen; E. Dixwall Chase, Edwin Clarke. Charles D. Dyer, William C. Flinn, David D. Furman, Chester Handleman, Martin Lichterman, Robert F. Loomis, William N. Parker, Welch Peel, Richard H. Sullivan, and Walter W. Webster...