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...Chicago last week was acutely conscious, but an estimated 90% of its membership is satisfied with the chaplaincy as now constituted, and the matter was not publicly discussed. Said one chaplain loftily: "We prefer to emphasize our principles by example rather than debate." Said U. S. Chief of Chaplains Alva Jennings Brasted: "We have no grievance against anyone. Countless facts bear testimony that the Lord is blessing the work of the chaplaincy...
With his brother Alva, owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball club, Charles Bradley was heir to a vast real-estate and Great Lakes shipping fortune. As a banker he early became associated with the Van Sweringens in real-estate, later in rail roads. When the Vans started building Cleveland's Terminals Building in 1927, blunt, outspoken Mr. Bradley was asked to supervise activities. He moved his office from the Union Trust Co. to the site of the excavation. Asked by newshawks what his plans were, Charles Bradley replied: "First thing we'll do is raise hell." The building...
Among the features of the new Advocate will be an article on the House Plan by Alva W. Sulloway '38 and an article on Pushkin by Jeffrey Fuller '38. The cause of Fiction will be championed by Abbot McC. Washburn, Jr. '37 and Harry M. Brown, Jr. '40, the latter sharing top honors for new talent with Theodore S. Amussen...
...week. Up to a microphone in NBC's Chicago studios stepped the master of ceremonies of the NBC Jamboree to announce "the phenomenon of the century . . . the only mouse in the world who actually sings." Into the studio marched the Industrial School's tall, gaunt Manager Oscar Alva Allred, carrying Minnie in a wire-fronted box. Holding the cage before the microphone, Manager Allred poked a small piece of insulated wire through a hole in the box top, tenderly prodded Minnie's belly. As the visible audience of 400 listened raptly, out over a national network went...
...headquarters building of the National Academy of Sciences, the guests viewed models of historical inventions, demonstrations of current research, industrial films. They heard the voice of Thomas Alva Edison from an old phonograph record. First telegraph message, "What hath God wrought?", was again received from Baltimore on one of the two original instruments of Samuel Finley Breese Morse. In the evening, efficient young Patent Commissioner Conway Peyton Coe read a list of the twelve foremost dead inventors in U. S. history, as chosen by the ballots of a secret committee. The twelve: Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Robert Fulton...