Colby
Colby names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Colby BAINBRIDGE, ican public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BAINBRIDGE, ican public official. cial. Born at St. Louis in 1869, he graduated from Williams College in 1890. After fter having completed a law course at Columbia University he took up the practice of law in New York City. He was instrumental in bringing about reforms in the affairs of the Equi- BAINBRIDGE COLBY table Life Assurance Co. In politics he was actively associated with Roosevelt in the founding of the Progressive party in 1912, but in 1916 supported Wilson for the presidency. President Wilson appointed him a member of the United States Shipping Board, and later made him a member of the American mission pain and inflammation in cases of gout to the inter-allied conference in Paris in November of 1917. When Secretary Lansing resigned in the spring of 1920 the President appointed Colby Secretary of State. During his term many important documents laying down the principles of American diplomacy with relation to the peace settlement with Germany and Russia were issued by his department.
Colby FRANK MOORE, an American editor and essayist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANK MOORE, an American editor and essayist; born in Washington, D. C., in 1865. He graduated from Columbia University in 1888. For several years he was acting professor of history at Amherst College and was lecturer in history in Columbia University from 1891 to 1895. From 1895 to 1900 he was professor of economics at the New York University. He was editor of the "New International Encyclopedia" in 1898 and of the "New International Year Book," 1898-1902. He contributed essays and reviews to many periodicals. His published writings include: "Outlines of General History" (1900); "Imaginary Obligations" (1904); "Constrained Attitudes" (1910).
Colby BAINBRIDGE, established a law partnership with ex-President Wilson
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BAINBRIDGE, established a law partnership with ex-President Wilson, March, 1921.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught both men in mid-career in 1921. Bainbridge Colby's most durable act as Secretary of State was the note of August 1920 refusing recognition to Soviet Russia — a policy that held until Franklin Roosevelt recognized the USSR in 1933; the law partnership with Wilson, announced with such fanfare in March 1921, brought in almost no business and was dissolved the following year, and Colby ended his life (he died in 1950) as a bitter opponent of the New Deal. Frank Moore Colby, the encyclopedia editor listed here, died in 1925; his light, sceptical essays were gathered posthumously and won him admirers among later critics, so that he is now remembered as an essayist rather than as the editor of the New International Encyclopedia.
Written for this edition, 2026.