Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Administrator Nathan Straus of the U. S. Housing Authority, which has been granted $800,000,000 from Congress for slum clearance since its organization 13 months ago, last week slammed his books shut, announced that the Authority was "broke but happy.'' Although there were only 46 local housing authorities when USHA set up shop, there are now 221 (in 31 States) qualified to take advantage of USHA's bargain terms-90% of the cost in longterm, low-interest loans-for slum clearance and low-rental housing programs. Not actually broke, USHA has signed $291,656,000 worth...
...original delivers the lesson and the succeeding acts are given over to farce, so it is with the current production. It must be said in all frankness, however, that the opening act of the latter is atrocious. Although the make-up department has cleverly turned out a George Jean Nathan, an Alexander Woolcott, and an Orson Welles, these gentlemen's attempts at acting are deplorable, even when allowances are made for first-night stage-fright. Only the skill of John W. Sever '40, as Maxwell Anderson alias Mr. Puff, and the charm of Dorothe Larson of the Bishop Lec Dramatic...
Bernard Rivin '40 and Richard S. Land '41, of Kirkland, successfully opposed a Lowell team composed of Sherman M. Tonkenow '40 and Nathan Belfer '41. The debate resolved itself into a discussion of humanitarianism vs. practicality...
Taking the affirmative, Lowell House will be represented by Sherman M. Tonkonow '40 and Nathan Belfer '41, while Bernard Rivin '40, and Richard S. Laue '41 will orate for Kirkland...
...years reserved, Harvard-bred New York Times Critic J. Brooks Atkinson wrote reviews as sober and dignified as a Times editorial. Atkinson left the pun-making and funmaking to such colleagues of those days as Heywood Broun, Alexander Woollcott, Percy Hammond, George Jean Nathan...