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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Affiliated Jewish Youth Organization of Greater Boston solidly behind the student forum, the political group said that among their speakers they would feature the wrestler Gus Sonnenberg and the actress, Dorothy Stone...
...Morgan seldom talks to reporters, and behind his geniality last week lay what might be interpreted as a subtle character change in the No. 1 U. S. private banking firm. The typical Morgan man has always been one who went to a good preparatory school, graduated from an Eastern university, had influential friends and a high social rating. Of the present twelve partners, ten are university graduates, all are listed in the Social Register. The three new partners are all public-school men; only one went to college; none is in the Social Register; none got his start through influence...
Mainly concerned with the news behind the political and military front, Hay took note, however, of many a minor picturesque happening, such as the visit of a temperance delegation, "looking blue & thin in the keen autumnal air," or the tantrums of Mrs. Lincoln ("The Hell-cat is getting more Hell-cattical day by day."). Except where it touches Lincoln, the main note of his diary is one of caustic or amused astonishment, particularly toward Generals McClellan ("the little Napoleon . . . afraid either to fight or run") and Benjamin Butler ("His ignorance of war leads him constantly to require impossibilities from...
Although his individual entries were snowed under by a field of national champions and near-champions at the B. A. A. Games Saturday night, Jaako Mikkola's one mile relay team covered itself with glory by outrunning Yale, while the two mile quartet took a third behind N. Y. U. and Manhattan...
...Crimson has traditions and spirit behind it. But in order to maintain these traditions and nurture this spirit, it needs good men. Tonight at 7:30, the Crimson opens its winter competition for the News, the Editorial, the Business, and the Photographic Boards--to which all capable men are invited...