Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Filling his magazine with a judicious mixture of letters from readers and articles by professionals, Publisher Hecht got his 100,000 subscribers in two years. Contributors included Psychologists Alfred Adler and John B. Watson, Adman Earnest Elmo Calkins, Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Dr. Allan Roy ("Quintuplets") Dafoe, Writers Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Kathleen Norris, Albert Payson Terhune, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. On the subscription list were the Lindberghs, Mrs. Irving Thalberg, John D. Rockefeller III. In his tenth anniversary number...
...always endure is perhaps the least heartening to a quarrelsome couple. Last week a distinguished English sociologist advanced this thesis to U. S. readers in a scholarly volume packed with quotations from moral and scientific authorities ranging from Stendhal to Havelock Ellis, from Montaigne and the Hebrew prophets to Bertrand Russell and Judge Ben Lindsey. Unmarried himself, Dr. Edward Alexander Westermarck is eminently equipped to support his point of view, has written on the subject of marriage for the past 47 years...
...this fifth installment Author Romains sticks mainly to industrial and political developments; some of the earlier characters do not even appear. Tycoon Bertrand's automobile factory booms, and Bertrand's fortunes are furthered by joining forces with Champcenais and the sinister armament-maker, Zülpicher. Briand is shown briefly at the Republic's helm, while Gurau, the ambitious politician, bides his time until he can get the Cabinet post he wants. The Abbé Mionnet, sent to tighten up discipline in a provincial diocese, nearly gets in trouble himself when rumors of his liaison begin...
...than any other U. S. seat of learning is the College of the City of New York, many of whose 22,000 politically-minded students seem to get their best fun at mass meetings or on picket lines. Completely antipodal is C. C. N. Y.'s President Frederick Bertrand Robinson, goateed, independent oldster who dresses conservatively, plays the cello, hates the rude manners of his undergraduates. After President Robinson characterized some C. C. N. Y. demonstrators as "guttersnipes" and trounced a dozen of the rowdiest of them with his umbrella, a committee of alumni solemnly found that he lacked...
...supervise the affairs of the city's three free colleges,* met to decide whether or not they should fire President Robinson. The Board apparently divided along strictly political lines. Six of the seven members appointed by liberal little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia scorned the majority recommendation that Frederick Bertrand Robinson should be retained, but with disciplinary powers clipped. When the Board voted further to select a subcommittee to figure how this was to be done, two members, Art Critic Lewis Mumford and Scripps-Howard Financial Pundit John T. Flynn, disgustedly snorted: "Whitewash...