Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much better acoustics, handsome indirect lighting, and comfortable chairs of green-blue leather. On the long bench were little placards identifying the committeemen for the audience. In the centre sat old Representative Bob Doughton of Laurel Springs, N. C., chairman of the joint committee, his bald dome almost as bright as his Palm Beach suit; at his left, Senator Pat Harrison, vice chairman...
...Tunis, writing on Honoris Causa in the June Harper's. Sneered Mr. Tunis: "Degrees are awarded with a canny eye for prestige, publicity, and good hard cash. . . . College trustees measure men by reputation rather than by real achievement. . . . One wonders what the effect would be on those bright young boys in the senior class at Mammoth if they fully understood the significance of the Commencement scene this month, as they watch their alma mater shoveling out honorary degrees to the face-cards of business and professional life...
...relative gain in installment selling is astonishing. Last year the volume of deferred payment merchandise sold by department stores was nearly 35% ahead of 1935, while charge account sales were up only 12½% (total department store sales were up 11.8%). Cried Joseph Anton Hagios, N.R.D.G.A.'s bright young German-born credit manager, fortnight ago: "With a growing segment of the buying public mortgaging its future income in installment obligations which will in all likelihood amount to close to 10% of our national income this year, it must be anticipated that the resulting installment debt is certain to have...
Hasty Pudding presents "Below zero"--Benchley reviewed as "the bright green oasis in the few deserts of dialogue...
...Bright and sunny days in June are the signal throughout the American educational world for white-flannels, caps and gowns, and a torrential flood of altruistic oratory poured out over the listening ears of eager youth. Unfortunately much of this baccalaureate wisdom has to do with the challenge of youth--how mankind can confidently expect that all the ills that flesh is heir to will melt away as soon as flaming youth has seized the helm--and is soon forgotten. But it is nonetheless true that the seven hundred odd Harvard men who take their bachelors degrees on Thursday have...