Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Years later, Elsa became librarian at the Lake Junior High School in Denver, and began ordering all the books she could on U.S. folklore heroes. She also got a teacher friend of hers all steamed up about it. The teacher, Miss Julia Eriksen, had been raised on homegrown tall tales in a Colorado mining camp...
President Milton Eisenhower of Kansas State College is chairman of the U.S. Commission for UNESCO. Fellow members of the fifteen-man executive committee with Smith include Archibald MacLeish, former Librarian of Congress and Assistant Secretary of State; Mrs. Douglas Horton, President of Wellesley College; and Editor Erwin D. Canban of the Christian Science Monites...
...date of formal dedication ceremonies remains to be set by the Board of Overseers, but Keyes D. Metcalf Librarian of the College, expects doors to open for students of January...
...same in Gloucester County. Their own schools, the Negroes said, were "wholly inadequate." The Negroes of King George County were especially discontented with their library. Sample books: The Love Letters of a Worldly Woman, a 1937 Bell System Technical Journal, a 1905 Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress, and a 1925 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Yearbook...
...state in which the oratorical interest outgrew the poetic. Moreover, both kinds of interest deteriorated, reaching a nadir in a thin book of thin versified prattle called America Was Promises, in 1939. In that year MacLeish had accepted the first of a series of public offices: that of Librarian of Congress. He also became successively head of the Office of Facts and Figures, assistant director of OWL Assistant Secretary of State, and deputy chairman of the U.S. delegation to UNESCO in Paris. It looked as if MacLeish were through as a working poet (he did not deny...