Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British code names for Wilson was "Aaron." When Anglo-American relations were strained, British publicists wired Colonel House that they would acquaint British leaders with Aaron's difficulties at home. At the outbreak of the War Aaron's difficulties were certainly immense, and Dr. Tansill's book gives the impression that Colonel House was not the least of them. Proud of his part in drawing up the Federal Reserve Act, House became an amateur financial expert, with the "comfortable conviction that his knowledge . . . was adequate to meet the emergency." In the chaotic situation that developed in international...
Catholic in her teaching principles, Mile Boulanger has teethed a varied crew of composers: conservatives like Quinto Maganini, Douglas Moore and Virgil Thomson; wide-open Westerners like Oklahoma-born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right...
Daniel H. Aaron, Assistant in English, is to hold the new post, with office hours in the Union from 2 to 5 o'clock on Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning this week. He will act in an unofficial tutorial capacity for all Freshmen interested in the extra-curricular reading of American History, whether or not they intend to take the Bliss prize examinations...
...Freshmen include discussion groups for those interested in various aspects of American civilization and related evening lectures in the Union by members of the Faculty from several departments. No formal course instruction, credit or registration, is implied in the appointment of the Counselor, according to Jones and Aaron, but voluntary participation in the discussion groups, attendance at the lectures, and consultation on reading will be welcomed...
...Aaron is a candidate for the Ph. D. in American civilization...