Word: ago
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Eugene Griflin, Tribune reporter, launched the "crusade" against Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth one year ago today with the alarming news that Ivy League colleges are "infested with pedagogic termites of communism, socialism, world federalism and other foreign born schemes which would weaken the American Republic...
...November, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was off 170,000 from October. It was the first time in seven years that such employment had dropped during the usually booming pre-Christmas season. (At 45,700,000, U.S. non-farm employment was still 800,000 above a year ago...
...immigrant Italian cobbler, Siragusa started making radio transformers 25 years ago in his father's Chicago shop. He developed an improved kind of transformer, and built his Transformer Corp. of America into the largest company of its kind in the world. Five years after refusing $5,000,000 for the business, he went bankrupt in the depression...
Thirty-five years ago, Frank Maloy Anderson, professor of history at the University of Minnesota and later at Dartmouth, set out to identify the anonymous diarist. This week he published his findings. He had at last located his man, and had come to a surprising and historically important conclusion about the diary itself...
...books that can be read by itself, as a slow movement of a symphony can be played by itself, but will be best understood by those who know what went on before it. With The Grand Design, Dos Passes returns to a series of novels he began ten years ago...