Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of the committee are: Chairman Saltonstall, Acting Chairman Lowell, Richard G. Axt, Jr. '46, Henry H. Chattield '89, John F. Kennedy '40, Frederick F. Moseley, Jr. '36, George A. Perey '18, Nathan Pereles '04, George Rublee '90, Philip C. Staples, Jr. '37, Augustus Thorndike '19, and Robert S. Wolcott...
...been conducted with the "impartiality we on the Council expected as a matter of course from this committee." A September 18 letter in advance of the recent meeting went to the Committee membership: Axt, Henry H. Chatfield '39, Kennedy, Lowell, Frederick F. Moseley, Jr. '36, George A. Perey '18, Nathan Pereles '04, George Rublee, '90, Philip C. Staples, Jr. '37, Thorndike, and Robert S. Wolcott '36. The author was chairman Saltonstall. Clear statements opposed the alleged crucial University needs that are pressed upon us." Specifically he plugged his personal view that "a fitting memorial to the World War II veterans...
...movies are fifth-rate theater," announced Critic George Jean Nathan. "No-make it tenth-rate." But he must have been relying on his memories: "I haven't gone to a movie .since women started talking...
...Practically every year there is a contribution of a thousand dollars from young Nathan Straus, the genesis of which goes back to Charles F. Murphy's day. There was a vacancy in the Court of Appeals. Before filling it, many things had to be discussed. Mr. Murphy and I were sitting alone one night, going over names, for no one had been decided upon. Mr. Murphy was told that Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Straus had come to see him. When Mrs. Straus, who was a dear old lady, saw Mr. Murphy, she looked up at him in her most...
...Murphy told me later that the first check he received each year was one for a thousand dollars from Nathan Straus. . . . Since the death of the old people young Nathan Straus has continued his parents' traditional contribution...