Word: bertrand
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...three bishops were put in nomination for this strengthened post, it was immediately apparent that one, the incumbent Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry, now 66, would have to retire before the next triennial convention (he has furthermore been in poor health), while of the other two, Bishop William Bertrand Stevens, 52, of Los Angeles, or Bishop William George McDowell Jr., 55, of Alabama, either if elected would serve for more than a decade. Last-minute lobbying for a presiding bishop who would be in the saddle a little more briefly, produced, when the bishops gathered to vote behind closed...
...interpretation of science to laymen is a different thing in Britain and the U. S. In England star performers, brilliant writers, more or less celebrated scientists with strong personal views have borne the load. The best known books of Eddington, Jeans and Bertrand Russell are as much treatises on their personal philosophies as they are skilled explanations of Relativity and quantum mechanics. Biologist Julian Huxley, brother of Novelist Aldous Huxley and grandson of the late great Evolutionist Thomas Henry Huxley is noted for his opinions about Science & Society, and for exposing the anthropological fallacies of Nazi Aryanism, although...
...weeks ago that the Democratic National Committee had sold souvenir campaign books-bound in leather and autographed by the President -for $250 each, and that some of the $700,000 worth of books had been bought by corporations, which are not allowed to contribute to campaign funds, Republican Representative Bertrand H. Snell naturally demanded an investigation (TIME, June 21). Last week, while Representative Snell's resolution remained securely pigeonholed by the House Rules Committee, the subject of the campaign books cropped up again, this time in the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce investigation of the Van Sweringen railway system...
Last week, the ingenious Mr. Morgan having died (TIME, May 3), Secretary Early felt called upon to make explanations, because Representative Bertrand H. Snell (Republican) produced the photostat of a letter, purporting to have been sent out by the Democratic National Committee, offering copies of the book for sale and saying: "We are using this book as a means of clearing up the deficit and the President has made his contribution by individually autographing each of the volumes...
When these confident expressions got around to Minority Leader Bertrand Snell, he took the floor for a shot at the White House: "It seems to me . . . that the final analysis of his whole proposition is the President agrees he will spend practically the same amount of money as the members have decided they want to spend for the same purposes. If this is true . . . why does the President object to Congress earmarking the money and insist on reserving to himself the right to earmark it?" Another shot was added by Mr. Snell's New York colleague John Taber: "This...