Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-five hundred citizens of New York City last week attended a testimonial dinner, to Grover Aloysius Whalen for his work as the city's Police Commissioner. The morning before the banquet Mr. Whalen went to Police Headquarters as usual to attend the daily "lineup" of suspected criminals before the detective force. Two police detectives, Frederick Opperman, 25, and John Foran, 34, reluctantly mounted the little stage. The charge against them was that they had tried to extort $25 from the proprietor of a small speakeasy on Staten Island...
...most dependable ball players on the bench. E. A. Mays '32, who sprained his ankle in the same inning, will not be back at his regular post on second base for three weeks. E. H. McGrath '31, who suffered a painful spike injury in the game, did not attend practice yesterday, but all reports indicate that he will be on hand for the Bates battle tomorrow...
Members of the University will have an opportunity to attend a biological seminar on Thursday at 4.45 o'clock in room 402 of the Zoological Laboratory. W. S. Creighton will take as his subject. "Remarks on Certain Jumping Ants", and B. R. Coonfield will discuss. "Annelid Effectors in Relation to the Nervous System...
...States. He discovered 150 doctors over 70 and with 50 or more years' practice. Six were nonagenarians. Giving them all a public party in Boston promised good publicity for the project. Last week four dozen oldsters managed to assemble. Of those who could not attend four died in March, four last month. Dr. Abner Orimel Shaw, 93, of Portland, Me., could not travel because he "hurt his knee gardening," six days before the party...
...subjects by whom he is so well beloved, His Majesty did not hasten with any anxious eagerness to Hamlet. Indeed, he did not go at all. But graciously the King-Emperor set May 19 as the date for a "Command Performance" of Hamlet, announced that Their Majesties will attend "if possible...