Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freeman lectured on poetry to workers in the needle trades, noting that they liked Whitman but complained that T. S. Eliot was as bad as the Talmud. He worked his way to Russia on a freighter, got a job at the office of the Comintern as a translator. In Russia during the excitement before the expulsion of Trotsky, he was depressed by the conflicts in the Communist Party, dispirited by the unprincipled career-hunting he observed, but did not lose his faith in Communism as a result. He is now on the editorial staff of the New Masses...
Those at the theatre included: Mr. Bingham, Dick Harlow, Howle Odell, Ray Crowther, Skip Stahley, Wes Fesler, Jimmy Dunn and Henry Lamar of the coaching staff C. F. Getchell, general manager of the H.A.A.; Frank Ryan, publicity director; Walter H. Page, II '37, football manager, Robert T. Whitman '38, assistant football manager; Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and Donald B. Straus '38, Crimson football writers; and Frank Lunden, Norman Fradd, and Jim McRae of the H.A.A...
...constitutional experts, Charles G. Haines, professor of Political Science, University of California, will join the Government staff during the fall months, to give instruction in the development of constitutional principles in the United States. Dr. Haines has taught political science for thirty years, during 1906-25 at Ursinus College, Whitman College, and the Universities of Texas and Chicago; and since 1925 at his present post. His outstanding works include "Conflict over Judicial Powers of the United States to 1870," 1909; "American Doctrine of Judicial Supremacy," 1914; "Principles and Problems of Government," 1921; and "Revival of National Law Concepts...
Assistant Manager: Robert T. Whitman...
...book is somewhat like an old-fashioned geography turned upside down. Beginning with a discussion of rivers, plains, mountain ranges, rainfall, Stuart Chase proceeds to long, eloquent, angry lament on the squandering of native riches. Like the Whitman of a bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster...