Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FREEDOM VERSUS ORGANIZATION?Bertrand Russell?Norton...
Three of the beneficiaries quietly awaited their share of the money last week. But when Sister Mary Bertrand. Superioress of St. Joseph's Hospital, saw a newspicture of Mary Louise Peck as St. Joan, her vexation was great. She informed the Atlantic Beach Club that St. Joseph's Hospital would accept not one penny of the money thus raised. One Oakley Bidwell, the club's executive secretary, offered public apologies, insisted that what had offended Sister Mary Bertrand was nothing more than "a brief and dignified appearance on the stage of a young lady clad in the armor...
Having counted up receipts, and paid for the food, music, and decorations. Mr. Bidwell sent Sister Mary Bertrand a check, to reject or accept as she wished. St. Joseph's Hospital's share of the proceeds...
...Manhattan's Paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn, 77, honorary president of the American Museum of Natural History, sailed for Europe with two grand daughters, announcing that he intended to take up the study of music. Frederick Bertrand Robinson, president of the College of the City of New York, who boasts, "I start something new each year," returned from a trip to Europe as a member of the crew of a Norwegian freighter. Said he: "It was the happiest 16 days I ever spent...
College of the City of New York's Frederick Bertrand Robinson: American commencements in recent years have become occasions on which distinguished men of affairs express incompetent conclusions concerning the purposes and methods of education, and visionary scholars tell industrial leaders and practical politicians just how to conduct private and public business...