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...mopped, genial Dr. Cherrington, 52, is no doctrinaire. Twelve years ago when Capitalist James Henry Causey, his conscience stricken by the violent Denver tramway strike of 1920, undertook to finance a Foundation for the Advancement of Social Sciences at the University of Denver, he picked Ben Cherrington from a YMCA student job to direct it. Director Cherrington began by asking 150 serious thinkers, including Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Jan Smuts, Harvard Law Dean Roscoe Pound, Ramsay MacDonald, Herbert Hoover: "What would you do?" Consensus was to tackle international problems, and Dr. Cherrington did, with endless lectures, seminars, model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Culture Division | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Secretary Bailey; the staff of the Japanese embassy, headed by Viscount Uchida; the staff of the Chinese and Brazilian ministries; and the Crown Prince of Turkestan. American civilians included part of the staffs of the Petrograd and Moscow branches of the National City Bank of New York (including myself) ; YMCA and YWCA workers; trade representatives; and George Sokolsky, editor [at .that time! of the Russian Daily News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 13, 1937 | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

Finishing strongly the Freshman D league squash team administered a 3-2 defeat to the Newton YMCA here yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '38 Squash Men Win | 12/21/1934 | See Source »

...Last month Severo Moreno sassed Stewardess Dolores Uranga, not for the first time. Secretary Carranza sentenced him to an eight-day suspension without pay, called a policeman to help enforce the sentence. Intolerable was that affront to the polysyllabic dignity of the Union de Obreros y Empleados de las YMCA, which consists of 77 cooks, waiters, janitors, clerks. It struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Y Out of Mexico? | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...overwhelming score of 48-14, the Freshman swimmers yesterday routed the natators from the Army and Navy YMCA in the New Indoor Athletic Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army and Navy YMCA Loses To 1937 Swimmers by 48-14 | 3/8/1934 | See Source »

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