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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More cogent an argument is the necessity for fluid funds if the University is to play its rightful part in the advance of education and learning. Unhampered as they are by dependence on the grants of penny-wise legislatures, endowed institutions are better fitted to experiment and introduce educational innovations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLUID FUNDS | 11/2/1938 | See Source »

In Congress: Dick Kleberg is three distinct things. He is a Personality-a leathery, lean-hipped, aloof, still faintly fabulous character who since he first drove up to the Wardman Park Hotel in one of the King Ranch's stripped hunting Fords, has spent his free time with his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

On the air and in print the Burns character is that of a cracker-barrel philosopher, whose favorite characters (both fictional) are his Aunt Doody and Grandpa Snazzy. In real life Cracker Barrel Burns has an $85,000 house, amuses himself with amateur astronomy, maintains the common touch by driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: New Pictures: Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

What's in it for Me? will rejoice readers: It narrates Harry Bogen's decline & fall. Harry is such a skunk-like character that in the first book many a reader may have been too sickened to notice Author Weidman's strong disapproval of his hero. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smart Guy's Fall | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Misrepresentation of the agencies as "fact-finding" has postponed "a needed reform in commissions, particularly in their quasi-judicial character," he said.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School Man Urges Support Of Novel Court for Business Appeals | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

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