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...Named in 1922 for the 26th U. S. President, not the 32nd. -Not to be confused with Ohio's Arthur Ernest Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...more handsome Hunter is rising in The Bronx, but in the meantime classes are crowded, jammed in one after another, some in a 32nd Street loft, some in a 52nd Street public school. Many a Hunter girl walks blocks to college, often carrying lunch which she eats in the basement. Half the girls have outside, part-time jobs. A "tradition" of planting ivy from historic places was begun last year in The Bronx. Someone tried to popularize wearing academic gowns but this died out. Hunter thinks its spring "sing" as exciting as Vassar's Daisy Chain or Smith...
During the World War I was a warrant officer with the 32nd Division, U. S. A. and on the drive through Chateau Thierry . . . I was billeted in a shell-torn building. During the night I slept on a pile of strewn papers in the middle of the floor of a room in this building and in the morning picked up an attractive document written on parchment and in old French script, merely as a souvenir...
...conclusive meeting was held in the 32nd story of the Aztec Tower of the Union Guardian Building. John K. McKee, representing the R. F. C., laid down the terms. The long wrangle ended. It was agreed to furnish $5,000,000 of new capital and promptly a telegram from the Comptroller of the Currency: "Due to the many complaints registered against the plan for a new bank . . . have deemed it advisable ... to appoint conservators . . . until the confusion of thought can be eliminated...
...same day last week the Legislatures of North Dakota and Tennessee ratified the 20th Amendment to the Constitution to eliminate "lame duck" sessions of Congress. They were the 32nd and 33rd States to do so. Next day Idaho and New Mexico fell into line. Then, over the weekend, began a race to see which State would be the 36th which would complete ratification. Favorite was Massachusetts, benefited by one hour in time. Georgia and Utah were champing at the bit. At this point a dark horse developed. In Jefferson City, Mo. members of the General Assembly were secretly telephoned...