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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire escape, announced he was going for a nickel ride on the subway. Most elusive winner was Betty Fitzgerald, switchboard operator for an importing company whose telephone service was disrupted by reporters whom Operator Fitzgerald refused to see in person. Shaggiest winners were a Mr. & Mrs. John Unseld, German-born proprietors of an Elizabeth, N. J. chicken farm, who had signed their ticket "Happy Easter." Said Farmer Unseld: "Chickens are more bother than they're worth. Maybe I'll build an apartment house. Maybe I'll lease a farm. Maybe I'll go back to Germany...
...eloquent prophet, a faithful practitioner of industrial virtue is Boardchairman George Matthew Verity of American Rolling Mill Co. Son of a circuit-riding Methodist minister, Steelman Verity was born 72 years ago in East Liberty, Ohio, married his boss's daughter, was Armco's president for 30 years, until he made way in 1930 for Charles R. Hook, Armco's present president.† George Verity's late years have been full of honors. Miami University in Oxford, Ohio gave him an LL.D. degree in 1925. Last year Middletown, Ohio, Armco's home town, declared...
...Born. To Governor James V. ("Jimmy") Allred of Texas, 37; and Mrs. Jo Betsy Miller Allred; their third son; on the Sam Houston four-poster bed in Texas' Executive Mansion; at Austin (see p. 23). Weight: 9 Ib. Name: Sam Houston...
...have been a graduate of Jack Oakie's College on the Columbia network for Camels, it's John Held, Jr., master of ceremonies of the Pontiac Varsity Show over NBC, the show which already may have saluted your campus. John Held, Jr., actually went to no college at all. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he started work as a cartoonist at the age of 18. Thereafter he studied youth in the college of experience and found it as dizzy, as dance mad, as genially addle-pated as Jack Oakie's charges are every Tuesday night to the music...
...Prairie College." When a charter was issued it was called "Knox Labor College." Today it is Knox College at , Ill., 100 years old in June. Though he is serving in that capacity, Knox's Centennial the formal occasion for inaugurating its 11th , Dr. Carter Davidson, 32, Kentucky born, recently associate professor in English at College (Minnesota...