Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's next president, James Bryant Conant, brings to his position the executive training acquired as head of the Department of Chemistry, and intensive knowledge of his special field; in addition to these qualifications, according to these who know him, he possesses wide interests which extend to the educational and cultural fields he is to lead in the future. His election, on these grounds, is a well calculated choice. In order to dispel the fears aroused by Professor Conant's devotion to his own subject, the daily press has made much of the fact that President Eliot also...
...From the seat of honor in the Willard Hotel ballroom he watched Washington correspond- ents royally "roast" his New Deal in song and skit. Burlesqued before him was "a wonderland from which men in hair shirts have been expelled by men in asbestos pants." With a high wide grin he saw himself welcomed into the peerage of dictators by Russia's Stalin, Italy's Mussolini, Germany's Hitler. Turkey's Kemal Pasha, Poland's Pilsudski. A sow named Cleopatra was tried for high treason because she had littered two more pigs than the President...
...year he advised a House committee to cut the dollar's gold coverage from 40% to 35% or 30% and make up the difference in silver. He is now being considered by President Roosevelt as Undersecretary of the Treasury. Mr. Taussig's sugar business has given him wide knowledge of trade and tariff problems, on which President Roosevelt has drawn heavily. Also 36, he is smooth, polished, clever. The job of the sub-experts was to nail down indisputable facts with the foreign experts and pass their composite work along to the White House. What was the world...
...from which the Nazis lately tried and failed to oust him because they disliked his book- Germany Puts the Clock Back (TIME, April 17). Best Editorial-to the Kansas City Star, $500 for a series ''on national and international subjects ... an editorial educa- tional campaign which exerted wide influence in the Mississippi Valley." Best Reporting-to Francis A. Jamieson. New Jersey correspondent of The Associated Press, $1,000 for able coverage of the Lindbergh kidnapping story. Newshawk Jamieson was closely acquainted with New Jersey's Governor Arthur Harry Moore, an advantage which he wisely pressed and which...
...daughter-was being married. Now her page, already a marvel of descriptive prose, must outdo itself. Marion Devereux rose splendidly to the occasion. For two-and-one-half columns she rhapsodized. Excerpts: "Last night the marriage of Miss Margaret Wiley and Mr. Campbell Dinsmore was an event of wide importance both for its social interest and owing to the fact that the fathers of both bride and groom are nationally known, Mr. William Foust Wiley as a publicist and publisher, a citizen of acknowledged judgment and influence, and Mr. Frank Furbus Dinsmore as a lawyer of high repute and marked...