Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION. Dinner at the Hotel Sheraton, 91 Bay State Road, Boston, at 7.00 o'clock. Reservations may be made at $2.00 each. Professor Donald B. Durrell will act as toastmaster. Speakers will include William H. Kilpatrick, Professor of the Philosophy of Education at Columbia; Dr. Payson Smith, former Massachusetts State Commissioner of Education; Henry W. Holmes, Dean of the Graduate School of Education; Robert Ulich, professor of Philosophy at Dresden; and Paul H. Hanus, professor of History and the Art of Teaching, Emeritus...
...Arthur ("Harpo") Marx broke a 13-year public silence in San Francisco recently (TIME, Aug. 24), it could not have been over 15 months at the most. Because I heard him speak from the stage of the Paramount Theater in Portland in May, 1935. The Marx Bros, had an act, "A Night at the Opera." "Harpo" surprised us all by making a curtain speech...
...till you see me!" implored the world's greatest tapdancer. When the Queen Mary docked, "Bojangles" took Jesse up to Harlem, lined up a bevy of Lenox Avenue high-yellow girls on a nightclub stage, posed for photographs and hoped that he and Owens would soon have an act together...
Receipts for fiscal 1937, the President reported last week, would be an estimated $5,665,839,000-$12,000,000 over his previous estimate-in spite of a $668,000,000 loss of AAA and Bituminous Coal Conservation Act taxes and a deferment of certain Social Security Act collections. These losses would be more than offset by $410,000,000 in additional funds from the Revenue Act of 1936; $33,000,000 in delayed collections on the Railroad Retirement Act; and a jump of $237,000,000 in general revenues because of better business...
...challenger, Endeavour II, built last winter, has been racing all this summer. It does not suit the New York Yacht Club because it leaves little time to tune up an as yet unbuilt defender next spring. First job of the committee which the Club last week empowered to act on the challenge will be to arrange a not particularly sporting deal, whereby, in return for such favors as permission to have his boat towed across the Atlantic instead of sailing it, Challenger Sopwith will accept a later date...