Word: witte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Retorted the A. M. A.'s President Dean De Witt Lewis: "I'm wondering whether he [Miller] was told that by the chief psychiatrist in one of those institutions for mental cases he speaks of, or by one of the inmates...
...extraordinary one, interpretable so ambiguously that even before he made his keynote address at Cooper Union last week it was both a boon and a handicap to him. Joseph McKee was born in Newark, raised in The Bronx. He worked his way through Fordham, taught there and at De Witt Clinton High School. He went to the State Assembly in 1918, became the youngest city Judge in 1924, youngest Aldermanic President in 1926. In that office he raised no violent anti-Tammany protests, but Samuel Seabury's municipal investigations spattered no mud on McKee's coat
...decade prior to 1890. He is about 54 years old. "It is doubtful if there has been another period in American history so opulent in the number of strong and brilliant preachers as our own." Thus, in presenting a book on U. S. preachers,* writes Edgar De Witt Jones, Detroit minister (Disciples of Christ, Central Woodward Church). A onetime president of his church's international body, onetime Detroit Newsman, at present a correspondent for the Christian Century, Author Jones knows his preachers well. He portrays 32 of them, chosen after careful consultations among fellow-preachers. Excerpts: ¶ Frederick Bohn...
...member of that organization known as the C. C. C. and with my fellow members feel that Major General De Witt is unjustified in classifying us with people who obtain money from the government without working...
...President of the A. M. A. is Dr. Dean De Witt Lewis, wealthy Baltimore (Johns Hopkins) surgeon, elected last year. Elected last week to be president for 1934-35 was Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring. 64, rich Des Moines internist, able diagnostician, a descendant of Vitus Jonassen Bering for whom Bering Strait was named. Dr. Bierring reads, writes and fondly speaks Danish, German, French. His polyglot library is one of Des Moines' most extensive. He takes a brief case full of books on his frequent lecture tours of Iowa, reads as his chauffeur drives him between communities. Des Moines hostesses...