Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus read a blurb on a leaflet distributed last week in Manhattan. The leaflet was designed to publicize MRA Week, which ended on Sunday with a big Citizens' Meeting in Madison Square Garden. On its face, the blurb looked like an endorsement of the doctrines of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, which in Europe have borne the label MRA since last summer (TIME, Sept...
...Lillie Bliss's fine Cezannes and other first-rate French paintings borrowed by President Goodyear in Europe. Reporters discovered young, lean, black-haired Mr. Barr looking tired, a description which it has been safe to apply ever since. The way people piled in, it might have been Madison Square Garden...
Impartial historians are as rare as "impartial" politicians. The Beard style, with its heavy clattering of cliches, lightened by an occasional urbane understatement or neatly turned irony, gives a skilful impression of impartiality. The impartial Beards' smartest trick is ventriloquizing moot points through historical Charlie McCarthies: James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Webster...
...speech. High schools banned the book; public libraries put it on the restricted shelf. Nicholas Murray Butler sputtered that his derelict professor of politics was aping "the crude, immoral and unhistorical teaching of Karl Marx." Charles Beard urged them to read Federal Paper No. 10, by Founding Father James Madison...
...chosen to sweeten NLRB is a merry, contemplative cherub of 56. Now grey, paunchy and averse to all forms of physical effort, he worked his way through the University of Wisconsin by cooking flapjacks for the One-Minute Coffee Shop in Madison. Between cakes & coffee he absorbed the principles of economics and labor from Wisconsin's famed Professor John R. Commons. Later he taught economics at Antioch College, where his students called him "Uncle Billy." He has been a careerist in mediation and arbitration-for NRA, for the petroleum industry, finally (in 1934) for the railroads as chairman...