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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garden Corp.'s plea for a temporary injunction to stop the scheduled heavyweight prize fight between Champion James Braddock and Challenger Joe Louis in Chicago on June 22. The court ruled that the Garden's contract with Braddock "places an unreasonable restraint upon his liberty." For the benefit of fight fans who want to keep up with the heavyweight legal tangle, the New York Times's versatile Sportswriter John Kieran submitted this brief at week...
...recital is to be given by Madame Eva Gauthier at Gore place in Waltham tomorrow afternoon for the benefit of the music room restoration fund. Gore Place, once the home of Christopher Gore who was a member of the Corporation and who left Harvard $100,000 for the erection of a library, is a fine old mansion which has been sadly misused in recent years. It has been only recently acquired as a permanent museum and library of New England antiquities...
Famed in the California Senate for introducing bills for the exclusive benefit of his own county, San Diego's Senator Ed Fletcher was the butt of a legislative joke last week in Sacramento. To the Senate reading clerk went a bill which Senator Fletcher's colleagues had drawn up in the familiar Fletcher style. Droned the clerk in his most serious monotone: "The sum of $6,635,000.03 is hereby appropriated from the unappropriated moneys of the general fund of this State for the purpose of dredging Pee-Wee River in the county of San Diego, which river...
...Congressmen, who have thus far blocked the Jones partition plan. Old Frederick Henry Prince, who has bought and sold a railroad or two in his 77 crotchety years, also had a plan for M. & St. L. but that got nowhere at all. Meantime, Mr. Abbott conducts his auctions without benefit of buyers...
...most part, however, it must be admitted that the work of the Committees have proved of lesser benefit. The chairman is seldom able to round up his entire board, even for one session a year, to meet the whole staff of a department. When the few who are able to come, finally do so, the work accomplished is generally of the philanthropic variety. Each instructor has a list of needs, ranging from office typewriters to personal paper clips...