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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captains Courageous (Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy); Wake Up and Live (Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Jack Haley, Alice Faye); The Prince and, the Pauper (Billy & Bobby Mauch, Errol Flynn); A Star Is Born (Janet Gaynor, Fredric March); Make Way For Tomorrow (Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi); Kid Galahad (Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Wayne Morris); Under the Red Robe (Raymond Massey, Annabella, Conrad Veidt...
...holes topped the field by three strokes. . . . Officials of the Professional Golfers Association were pleased when three of the players they had selected for the Ryder Cup team that will play England this month and four others named as eligible for it were in the round of eight. . . . British-born Harry Cooper last year broke the record for the U. S. Open by two strokes, lost the title when Tony Manero broke it by four. Last week when Cooper and Manero played each other in the quarterfinals, Cooper was 4 up with nine holes to play. Manero...
...waxed so heated that spectators left their seats, circled the defense attorney and the plaintiff as questions disclosed that the check was a routine interest payment on $9,998 of Soviet bonds which Dr. Freeman had purchased for his mother's estate; that Dr. Freeman had been Boston-born Abram Ellis Friedman until he changed his name in 1923 "because I thought it stood as a handicap".; that Dr. Freeman believed "to talk about God, you must first create an image, and then talk about the image you have created"; that Dr. Freeman in his book Social Psychology...
...college presidents started their careers so unpromisingly as James Madison Wood, who was born in a log cabin at Hartville, Mo. 61 years ago. At the age of 21, when he married Hartville's Lela Raney, he was a humble country schoolteacher. He did not get his bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri until he was 31. Five years later, when he was an instructor at the State Normal School in Springfield, Mo., he was offered the presidency of debt-laden, Baptist Stephens and accepted immediately. Within ten years President Wood had not only doubled Stephens...
...successor as head of the Steel Institute. The settlement by which Myron Taylor had made his peace with John L. Lewis had split the industry as it had never been split before. Outmaneuvered by Mr. Taylor, outsmarted by Mr Lewis the big independent steelmakers were fired with a wrath born of isolation. Big Steel and the little fellows had later yielded recognition to the C.I. O. For the first time since the schism was opened ast spring when U.S. Steel's President William Adolf Irvin telephoned his competitors the incredible news, the two factions sat down in the same...