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Justice Justin Miller (夫)婦
Justin Miller (November 17, 1888 – January 17, 1973) was a lawyer and a federal appellate judge.
In 1934, Miller again began switching gears, this time migrating from academia to the public sector. In 1934, while still dean at Duke Law School, he became a special assistant to the United States Attorney General; he left Duke the following year, and ceased to be a special assistant the following year. In early 1937, he was a member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals. Later that year, on August 20, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated him to be judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was confirmed the next day, and commissioned two days later.
On September 30, 1945, Miller resigned his position on the court and returned to the private sector. He immediately became president of the Association of Broadcasters, a position he held until 1951, when he became chairman of the board and general counsel to the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters. From 1951 to 1952, Miller moonlighted on the United States Salary Stabilization Board.
He also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Conference on Citizenship in 1954.
Thomas Mann 短篇小說
Bernard Augustine DeVoto (January 11, 1897 - November 13, 1955) was an
American historian and
author who specialized in the history of the
American West.
Life and work
He was born in Ogden, Utah. He attended the University of Utah for one year, then transferred to Harvard University, but interrupted his education to serve in World War I, graduating in 1920.
He began his career in 1922 as an English instructor at Northwestern University and began to write articles and novels, which often provoked controversy for their liberal viewpoint. Sometimes he used the pseudonyms John August and Cady Hewes. In 1927, DeVoto resigned from Northwestern and moved to Massachusetts with his wife Avis. He began to dedicate himself to serious writing along with part-time instructing at Harvard. He wrote frequent articles for periodicals, with a regular column, "The Easy Chair," in Harper's Magazine from 1935 until his death.
DeVoto became an authority on Mark Twain and served as a curator and editor for Twain's papers. From 1936 to 1938 he lived in New York City, where he was editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, after which he returned to Massachusetts.
In 1936, DeVoto published "Genius is Not Enough," a scathing essay on Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, in which he vehemently concluded that Wolfe’s work was “hacked and shaped and compressed into something resembling a novel by Mr. Perkins and the assembly-line at Scribners" (Donald, D.H. "Look Homeward" 1987, 376-377). The effect of this essay on Wolfe's self-confidence was perhaps the greatest influence on his cutting ties with Scribners and editor Maxwell Perkins shortly before his death in 1938.[citation needed]
In DeVoto's later years, he gained fame for his popular histories of the West: The Year of Decision: 1846 (1943), Across the Wide Missouri in 1947 (Pulitzer Prize, 1948), The Course of Empire in 1952 (National Book Award, 1953), and DeVoto's popular abridged edition of The Journals of Lewis and Clark (1953). From the 1940s to the end of his life, he was renowned for his championing of public lands and of conservation of natural resources, and for his pugnacious defense of civil liberties.
His wife, Avis DeVoto, a book reviewer, editor, and avid cook, became friends with famous American cookbook author Julia Child after Child wrote to Bernard DeVoto regarding an article he wrote on kitchen knives. Avis responded to Child's inquiry, and there began a long correspondence and friendship between the two women during Child's writing of her groundbreaking Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961), published by Knopf. Child acknowledged Avis as "wet nurse" and "mentor" to the undertaking. Their correspondence is housed in the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, and selections were recently released in the book, As Always, Julia (2010), edited by Joan Reardon, and published by Houghton Mifflin which originally rejected Child's book.
His son Mark DeVoto is a music theorist, composer, and retired professor at Tufts University.
Selected works of Bernard DeVoto
- Mark Twain's America (1932)
- Mark Twain in Eruption (1940)
- Mark Twain at Work (1942)
- Historical Trilogy:
- The Year of Decision: 1846 (1942)
- Across the Wide Missouri (1947)
- The Course of Empire (1952)
- The Portable Mark Twain (1946)
- The Journals of Lewis and Clark, editor (1953)
- DeVoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good (2002)
- The Hour Originally published in 1958 and republished in 2010 by Tin House Books
References
- Stegner, Wallace E., The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto (1974)
- Stegner, Wallace E., editor, The Letters of Bernard DeVoto (1975)
- Topping, Gary. Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History. 2003, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma. ISBN 0-8061-3561-1
- Saveur Magazine, #134, December 2010, p. 41.
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