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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly the whole world last week undertook to pass judgment in one form or another on Britain's Prime Minister. That Neville Chamberlain will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was taken for granted by the Norwegian press. The influential Aftenposten went on to urge that, without waiting for the next scheduled date for the Nobel award-December 10, anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel-the committee should "immediately" give Mr. Chamberlain the prize (about $40.000). Norwegian joy at the peace was such that all Oslo school children were given a holiday...
...prize is given annually to that member of the graduating class "who during his four-year course is deemed best to have upheld the ideals of the school in loyalty, character, high scholastic standing, and quality of work." The award was given by Dr. S. Ellsworth Davenport, Jr., D.M.D. '10, of New York City, in memory of his father...
...Hanover, Pa., who drove her father's trotter to three world's harness racing records. Boy of the Month: Edward Higgins, 11, of Pueblo, Colo. Born without arms, Edward Higgins can sew on buttons with his toes, in a competition against normal boys won a national award in penmanship...
...first competition open to Freshmen, that of football manager, opens on Wednesday afternoon with the award of football numerals awaiting the winner and valuable training for all who enter...
Wholly successful moving pictures are the consequence of a collaboration too complex for analysis. Nonetheless, if the Motion Picture Academy fails to award Director Capra its prize for his first picture since Lost Horizon, most critics will be justified in surmising that its only excuse will be that he has already won it twice before. Known for his knack of inventing "business," Director Capra was faced with the supreme test in a play that was already as full of business as a beehive. How thoroughly he passed it can best be judged by the fact that his shrewd cinema editing...