Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monsieur Charles Koechlin of Paris, distinguished composer, author of several, text books, writer on musical subjects, and teacher, will lecture in the John Knowles Paine Hall Friday evening at 8.15 o'clock. M. Koechlin's subject will be "Contemporary Composers...
...prophesied a terrific philippic knew Roy A. Young. Famed masters of finance have won reputations for taciturnity, austerity. But Governor Young is friendly, cheerful, talkative. He was twitted", last week, about his nickname, coined by the able financial writer for the New York World John F. Sinclair is a northwesterner, familiar with breezy phrases, breezy people. He called Governor Young, "the glad-hand artist of the Federal Reserve." The nickname stuck...
Thus, with a glad hand, did Governor Young wave aside any little unpleasantness about speculation. The Wall Street bulls beamed with relief. The press was amazed. Said Writer B. C. Forbes, bluntly, in the New York (Hearst) American: "He said nothing. Either he was muzzled by the Washington powers that be, or more likely, he muzzled himself. A high-powered shell proved to be a dud. Politics, presidential elections, are responsible for more than making strange bed-fellows...
...Louis J. Tabor, Master of the National Grange (membership, 800,000 farmers). President J. J. Phoenix of the National Knitted Outerwear Association, woolens, manufacturer of Delavan, Wis. He wrote to Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt (q.v.,p. 12): " . . . The writer personally lost one-third of his entire capital during the second Cleveland administration. . . . He was also in business in 1913. . . . Had not the War intervened, the United States would have experienced a worse condition than in 1894. ... It is the sincere wish of the writer and this industry that your hopes of success may be blasted." Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost...
...recent issue of the "North American Review," a writer arrives at the surprising conclusion that the parents of John Harvard were probably first brought together by William Shakespere. Following the clue offered by the circumstances that Miss Katherine Rogers lived near the home of Shakespere in Stratford and Robert Harvard lived in London, between which city and Stratford William Shakespere was the only "antecedent link" that research has brought to light, this writer continues that the poet probably invited his London friend Robert Harvard to Stratford. There he may have introduced this friend to Miss Rogers, whom Shakespere surely knew...