Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Studebaker. . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Board Chairman Walter J. Cummings of the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. New Jersey College for Women (New Brunswick, N.J.) Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney . . . . . . . . . . . D.F.A Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) Dean Luther Allen Weigle of Yale Divinity School . . . . . . . . . S.T.D. Roanoke College (Salem, Va.) Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.) Actress Edith Wynne Matthison . . . . . Litt. D. President Constance Warren of Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, N.Y.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ED. D. Syracuse University (Syracuse, N. Y.) Robert Woods Bliss, U. S. Ambassador to the Argentine . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. Brain Surgeon Harvey Cushing . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. Federal Coordinate...
...this might seem trivial! Conservatives might wink a wise eye at that "spirit of discipline and fair play inculcated on the sporting fields of Harvard" which has so delightfully been carried overseas to grace the hitherto depraved Fatherland. The average Harvard man might feel fairly titillated by Hanfstaengl's glowing tribute to "American energy, character, and idealism." Indeed, conservative professors, if not profiteering patriots, might revel in the lovable Ernst's bid for "intellectual, scientific, and human interchange between the U.S. and Germany, without which there can be no true insight, no true understanding, no true progress...
Editor Joseph Medill Patterson a new comic of his own called "Little Orphan Otto." Editor Patterson, an enthusiastic expert on comics, changed Otto to Annie, started her on her way in the Tribune in August 1925. Annie was a curly-haired hoyden about 12 years old, incredibly wise, philosophical, capable, generous. In due time Cartoonist Gray lifted her from squalor by letting her be adopted by a fabulously rich, middle-aged character named Daddy Warbucks. Daddy had fleets of yachts and airplanes, platoons of liveried footmen around his palatial home, wore a dinner jacket and gleaming diamond shirt stud...
...cross the Rocky Mountains for the first time in nearly two years. With his bulbous Son George and his keen-eyed Editor Arthur Brisbane he swept into Chicago for a preview of the Century of Progress. At luncheon there General Charles Gates Dawes revealed something that not even wise old Reporter Brisbane knew before: Publisher Hearst had underwritten last year's Fair to the tune of $500,000. twice as much as any other individual...
...provoked to laughter by such an action, some of the general's brother officers on the General Staff begged him to drop his complaints. But he and his lawyers were adamant. Equally aware of the same ludicrous possibilities, Merry-go-Rounders Pearson & Allen engaged the most spectacular, publicity-wise lawyer to be found in Washington, dark, bombastic Ferdinand Pecora, investigator for the Senate Banking & Currency Committee. Hearst is represented by his resident counsel in Washington, distinguished Wilton John Lambert. United Features, a keenly interested spectator, called in the Scripps-Howard counsel, the law firm of Newton Diehl Baker...