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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcement of the award of 220 mid-year degrees was made yesterday at University Hall. These will be the first degrees which will bare the signature of President Conant...
...illegal for the Post Office Department to extend old airmail contracts, tide over potent contractors until the Watres Act could be passed in April 1930. 2) It was illegal to award big route extensions without competitive bidding. 3) It was illegal to permit collusion among the hand-picked operators who met at the Post Office Department in May- June 1930, agreed among themselves what routes they would and would...
...Awarded. To Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson, 69, progressive educator, principal of Philadelphia's Southern High School for girls: the Philadelphia award for conspicuous civil service (scroll, medal, $10,000). She is the first woman recipient since the award was founded in 1921 by the late Edward...
Doctor William Morton Wheeler, professor of entomology and dean of the Bussey Institution from, 1908 to 1929, has been named an officer of the Legion of Honor by the French government. This award was made in recognition of Professor Wheeler's contributions in the field of biology and his sympathetic appreciation of science in France...
...pugnacious Paraguay's five-year war with Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, ending in 1870, was a squabble with Argentina over her western boundary. The entire dispute was laid at the elastic-sided boots of President Hayes, who looked solemnly at many maps, listened to many arguments and finally awarded all the land between the Pilcomayo and the Verde rivers to Paraguay. Argentina accepted the award and President Hayes went down in South American history as a great peacemaker. Last week Paraguay stubbornly refused to allow any of the territory included in the original Hayes award to be discussed...