Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Fund Council, controlling board of the Harvard Fund, is composed of thirty elected and appointed alumni. About 65 active Class Agents do the campaign work...
From all over the U. S. men flocked to the gaudy Brinkley sanatorium at Milford, Kans. and in headphone days Dr. Brinkley began to operate a radio station called KFKB ("Kansas First, Kansas Best"). In 1930 the Kansas Medical Board revoked his medical license for "unprofessional conduct," and the Federal Radio Commission refused to renew his broadcasting license. Undaunted, Brinkley leaped into the Governorship campaign on a "vindication ticket," polling 183,000 votes on a write-in ballot. In 1932 and 1934 he again aspired to the Governorship, but was badly beaten both times by Alf Landon...
Silver miners, now prospering at the nation's expense, may consider such speculation academic. But last week none other than Chairman Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board attacked the Silver-Purchase program from an angle which might well give the industry pause. Said he to a Senate committee...
Theme of this gracefully padded first novel: intellectuals are hawks, plain citizens are sparrows. Intellectual Kipter, a bearded, philosophical, moulting bird, goes to board in a nest of lower-middle-class sparrows: a voluptuous ex-chorus girl and her 17-year-old niece. Fascinated, the female sparrows twitter around his bedroom, while Kipter pays them cautious compliments. Blamed for fouling the nest when he merely pushes the landlady out to protect his virtue, the hawk makes a back-window exit just in time to save his tail feathers. Hawk Among the Sparrows is less a warning to high-flying intellectuals...
...News Board competition offers a last chance for Freshmen who are primarily interested in news work, since News editors are ordinarily elected only as Freshmen. The Business competition is also restricted to Yardlings, while the Editorial Board is limiting this competition to Sophomores. There will be no Photographic Board tryouts until next term...