Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Association of New York City upheld the principle of the bill but condemned its wording as "so rigid, so needlessly interfering, as to bring about a widespread crippling of the administrative process." Brookings dittoed the opinion. Everyone agreed that the measure opened up visions of an endless field day for lawyers. It passed the House twice: 1) 282-to-97, 2) 176-to-51; the Senate once...
Divorced. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., nomadic writer and onetime publisher; from Helen Varner Vanderbilt; after six years' marriage, during which Mrs. Vanderbilt, his third wife, sought several times to file separation suits, was frustrated on each occasion because process servers could not locate the restless Vanderbilt trailer; in Carson City...
Because it enabled an average of 10,000 people to support an average of four dependents apiece for four years, Federal Theatre fulfilled its purpose: relief. In the process it made many original contributions to theatre art. Among them were its productions of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and T. S. Eliot's religious drama Murder in the Cathedral, the Negro Swing Mikado, etc. But Hallie Flanagan is especially proud of the socio-esthetic achievement as a whole, of the fact that millions were given a wide gamut of drama from Euripides to O'Neill, as well...
Since the beginning of the present century, historians like Sydney George Fisher, Claude H. Van Tyne, Francis V. Greene, by a process known as making Washington less of a statue and more of a human being, have busily reduced the prodigious figure to something nearer their own size and understanding. They were doing quite nicely when along came Historian John C. Fitzpatrick, by whom, says Knollenberg testily, "their work has been largely undone." So exasperated does Historian Knollenberg become in undoing this undoing that he accuses Historian Fitzpatrick of taking literally a remark of Washington Irving's: "There...
Your editorial "Nieman Nemesis" naturally interests me. Its indictment of the Nieman Fellowships is that the chief result has been a movement of Fellows from small papers to the New York papers, which, by this process, "sucked the life-blood from their journalistic brethren." You, therefore, question the value of the Nieman Fellowships to the American press...