Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Applications for these scholarships may be made directly to the Dean's office at the Business School, or through the scholarship committee of the Business School Alumni Clubs not later than April 1, 1940. Unsuccessful applicants for the National Scholarships will be considered for the awards amounting to $300 each given by the Business School Alumni Clubs in the principal cities of the country...
William A. Paton, professor of Economics and Accounting at the University of Michigan, will deliver the annual Dickinson Lectures on accounting at the Graduate School of Business Administration next April, the University announced yesterday. His lectures will deal particularly with recent and prospective developments in the fields of accounting...
...goal he had missed for 20 years. In the spring of 1909, at latitude N. 87° 47', he began the famed last lap, alone except for his Negro servant and four Eskimos. His claim: That in five days he covered the remaining 150 miles to the Pole (April 6), made the necessary observations, left a fragment of the flag and a message in a snow cairn, traveled the 150 miles back to the camp at 87° 47' in 56 hours...
...From April to October each year Sandburg made no engagements; he sat at his cracker box and wrestled with a bigger job than any army commander ever faced. Fifty years old when he started it, he could summon to his aid a lifetime of singularly useful experience: as a shock-headed Swedish kid in Galesburg, Ill. in the '80s (his father was an immigrant blacksmith) listening to talk of Lincoln and the Civil War; as a harvest hand, a migrant worker, a volunteer in the Spanish-American War; as a young reporter in Milwaukee and Chicago getting ten years...
...vulgar and profane beyond his old habits, worn and frazzled as a castoff garment." He had a theory that war between the States could be stopped by getting a war started with some foreign power (Lincoln's observation on this later was "One war at a time"). On April 1 he sent a memorandum to Lincoln embodying this and other suggestions which implied that "Lincoln was a failure as a President but he, Seward, knew how to be one." One of many Lincoln classics is the gentle but ice-cold reply that Seward got, subscribed (without Lincoln...