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...been under the care of an alienist for three years. She is subject to spells of sickness that affect her mind." Next day Mrs. Beery countered that she had been to Nevada with Cinema Director Raymond Wells on "purely a business matter." Added she: "Will you please ascertain what reward Mr. Beery offered for my discovery? If it is sufficiently large I will have myself brought in" at once." Mrs. Elizabeth Reeve Cutter Morrow, wife of the retiring Ambassador to Mexico and Republican candidate for Senator from New Jersey, saw her first book, The Painted Pig (Knopf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 29, 1930 | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...solemn conclave in various states have rigidly avoided a definite stand in their party planks with a persistence that is nothing more nor less than praiseworthy. The repeal of Prohibition will be successful only at the polls. The parties exist for another purpose, difficult though it may be to ascertain that purpose. Twenty-nine new supporters have found their way into the sacred halls of justice down Washington way. According to the prognostications of local experts the wet candidate in Massachusetts should attain a comfortable majority in November. In the west, Senator Walsh of Montana, with a brilliant career while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAST DAYS | 9/20/1930 | See Source »

...Before we take any stand," president Myrtle Wolfram explained graciously to Rockford newsgatherers, "The Social Morality Department always goes right to headquarters to ascertain the facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Yes! The Queen DOES Smoke | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...concerned with the detailed requirements in any subject field nor would I ascribe superior value to any particular type of test or entrance examination. We need the evidence of the essay type as well as that of the more recent objective test. It takes more than one instrument to ascertain not only what a candidate knows and what mental capacity he has, but also to what extent he will use his knowledge and ability. The importance of the school record, which consists of both subjective and objective elements., is unquestionable. In fact it seems to me that the principle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Problem of College Preparatoy Student is Not the Entire Question in Secondary Education, Says Smith in Article | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...work was that of keeping track of the rising children among the members of the class. When the time was ripe for any son of a graduate to enter college, it was the duty of this committee to get in touch with the father of the boy, and to ascertain whether or not the boy was being sent to college, and if so, to what institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAY 31 SET ASIDE AS FATHERS, SONS DAY AT HARVARD | 5/9/1930 | See Source »

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