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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small-town weekly earns about $2,400 a year, including income from his job printing. If he lives far out on the range, like Editor Charles Laflin of the Covert, S. Dak., Advance, he must often take turkeys and fence posts for subscriptions. He is likely to be chosen mayor, basketball referee or blood donor at any moment. He works 60 to 80 hours a week, and rarely reads a book. And above all, he has to watch what he prints. A Rockland, Mass, editor was driven into bankruptcy because he told how a townslady had slipped bottom-first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grass Roots Press | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Scheduled for this evening, the last of a series of organ recitals by E. Power Biggs, in the Germinate Museum, has been postponed until next Monday evening at 8:15 o'clock. As a special feature, Biggs will be accompanied by 14 specially chosen members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biggs Recital Postponed | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

VATICAN CITY-Vatican experts on procedure who have completed research into the traditions and unwritten regulations governing the elections of Popes for the past 100 years predicted tonight that the new Pontiff will be chosen from among five Italian Cardinals...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

...Chosen to assist Wolff in planning the Freshman schedule, which will culminate in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangle debate, are: William C. Murphy, Thomas M. Cook, Keith R. Symon and Charles S. Bridge. play in Widener Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wolff Elected Chairman of Freshman Debating Union | 2/15/1939 | See Source »

Selection of the students will be made by committees of responsible men, chosen with the approval of the Faculty, in the various countries designated to receive the scholarships. The committee said that it hoped to increase gradually the number of scholarships available and to guarantee the permanency of the stipends by an endowment or capitalization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pan-American Scholarship Plan Gets Endorsement by Roosevelt | 2/14/1939 | See Source »

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