Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drafting a new city-manager charter. His next big feat was to cut Ohio's budget from $86,000,000 to $48,000,000 as Governor George White's financial director. After a term as Supreme Court judge, he went to Harvard in 1935, was surprised last week to hear of his election. Ohio State was surprised, too, congratulated itself on having got a good financial manager who knows the university well...
Around a long table in a long room at Ohio State University last week gathered six men and a woman, the university's board of trustees. They began to wrangle, as they had at every meeting for 18 months, about a new president for Ohio State...
...been an Ohio Supreme Court judge and finance director for two Governors. The trustees, unable to agree on Morrill or Bevis, considered more than a score of bigwig outsiders, deadlocked on some, were turned down by others (notably Chicago's famed Physicist Arthur H. Compton). Last week, after an angry hour and a half, peace, as it must to all squabbles, finally descended, and Howard Bevis was elected as Ohio State's seventh president...
...unlikely habitation for ghosts is the 27-story Manhattan apartment-hotel called One Fifth Avenue. Yet last week ghosts were astir in that swank Greenwich Village tower. They had moved in with the new tenant in 24-A, a spry, 60-year-old, brown-eyed grandmother from Taos, N. M., with long greying bangs, hornrimmed glasses, a thirst for new experiences. The new tenant's name is Mabel Dodge Luhan. After a quarter century she had come back to open a new salon...
...recall the background of that historic tangle with Stalin, Ben Gitlow, highest placed and most articulate U. S. Communist yet to spill the beans, last week published a 611-page confession of his Party life. It is a lively and extraordinary history. Unlike most ex-Communists, Author Gitlow does not try to prove that his brand of Communism was right, that of the Stalinites wrong. Given Marx and Lenin, concludes Author Gitlow, Stalinism is inevitable; Fascism also. As for his own role in the Party, Author Gitlow confesses he was no better than the next one -though naturally he credits...