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Heading the list were the Committee's honorary chairman, Professor Frans Boas, and Professor Wesley C. Mitchell, both former presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences; Oswald Garrison Villard, former publisher and editor of "The Nation"; Dr. Carleton Washburne, president of the Progressive Education Association; Professor Ralph Barton Perry of Harvard University, author of the Pulitzer Prize biography of William James...
...carry a final coal to Newcastle, the supporting cast with Wesley Addy, Mark Smith and June Walker rounds out the complete whole. Despite its two stars the brilliance of "Twelfth Night" lies in its balance. From Margaret Webster's direction and Stewart Chaney's sets down to the last jigging dance, not a jog is amiss...
...Carter Wesley, A.B. (Fisk), LL.D. (Northwestern), onetime first lieutenant in the A. E. F., publisher of seven Texas papers (the Houston, Corpus Christi, Galveston, Austin, Longview, Lovelady Informer, the Dallas Express), backed Roosevelt in 1932, 1936, this year backs Willkie. Says Publisher Wesley: "We are supporting Willkie not because we think that he can do more for the Negro race, but because Negroes will share in the betterment of business if Willkie is elected...
Cried Isolationist Senator Bennett Champ Clark: "Outrageous proposition . . . senile, reactionary president of Columbia . . . pothouse Republican politician." On the Columbia campus, meanwhile, eight professors (including Anthropologist Franz Boas, Economist Wesley Mitchell, Sociologist Robert Lynd, Chemist Harold Urey) asked their president to clarify his views on their freedom...
...clergy could instruct them. Most of the money for this and other missionary work in India comes from the great British missionary boards-one of which, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, sent out such famed 18th-Century missionaries to the U. S. as Methodist John Wesley, Episcopalian John Talbot. Now that Britain has had to cut her missionary giving, U. S. Episcopalians are rallying to help Bishop Azariah and other Anglican missionaries carry...