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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leavenworth from which he was paroled two years ago. Last week the Minneapolis Journal gave them something to stare at besides that big FOSHAY. Using the invention of another local prodigy, Louis L. Rustad, the Journal strung a network of neon tubing around the top of the Foshay Tower, began displaying "sky flashes" of the latest news in six-foot-high running messages...
Last week as the U. S. commencement season opened, college presidents, who differ from other manufacturers in shipping their goods only once a year, began to show their 1939 product. They expected to turn out about 155,000 graduates (a few more than last year), only slightly damaged by war scares and goldfish gulping. But observers who wanted to evaluate contemporary U. S. higher education turned their eyes not on these untried graduates but on the college presidents themselves (for a representative group, see adjacent columns...
Biggest alumni school was at University of Chicago, where 3,500 alumni began an eight-day term of lectures, discussions and movies, interspersed with the usual dinners, excursions and shenanigans. Chicago's alumni school, whose purpose is not to stuff but to stimulate, had as lecturers President Robert Maynard Hutchins, U. S. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, NLRB's Chairman J. Warren Madden, University professors. Alumni heard lectures on What Is Progressive Education? Can Man Make Good? What Can We Expect from the New Pope...
...Metropolitan, the biggest two insurance companies in the U. S., were on the big time air with their side of the story. Their main point: the company agent's functions are so ordered that the best interests of the policyholders must be the agent's, too. Prudential began a five-a-week non-insurance dramatic serial over CBS, called When a Girl Marries, which contents itself with simple commercial testaments to the agent's integrity...
...Benton, Ky., James R. Lemon and some of his family began an annual songfest which became known as "Benton's Big Singing," attracted people from miles around by their performance of hymns and revival songs from Southern Harmony. Sample old favorite...