Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Press On Sirs: Kiwanians of the McKanArk district, alert to the need of a timely gesture of courage in the face of the business depression properly to launch their convention at Joplin, chose a TiMEly method when Convention Committee Chairman Harry Horner of Wichita arose at the start of the initial session and read from TIME, Sept. 21 issue, The Presidency, the full article from which the following are excerpts: "At 4 p.m. one hot day last week President Hoover kept his regular appointment with the Press. . . . The U. S. public is being unduly alarmed about the degree of hardship...
Medicine again is the career that received first choice by the class of 1935 in the Freshman Phillips Brooks House questionnaire. Out of the 155 Freshmen that indicated at all what they intended to do after leaving college, 52 chose medicine, 29 law, and 25 selected engineering an the field of work for their life. Business and teaching received only 18 and 15 votes respectively...
...Wadsworth House. As the total number of men registered in all is only 906 in comparison with last year's figure of 937, the number of men signed up for each individual sport is proportionally lower, except for football, swimming, handball, baseball and managers. The figures show that 210 chose tennis, 177 chose crew, and 165 football. Swimming is next with 77 men, having jumped into fourth place at the expense of singles. Track, with 48 men displaced soccer for which only 31 signed up this year. Handball, increasing in popularity, managed to move up three places, coming in just...
...Hahn resigned from the presidency of Hahn Department Stores (27 in 26 cities), chose his protegé Paul Quattlander to succeed him. Founder Hahn will be board chairman, succeeding George W. Mitton who becomes chairman of the executive committee...
Canny Ibanez sidestepped. For the first time since he took office a Chilean Cabinet formed last week by someone other than Carlos Ibanez himself, took charge of the departments of government. The new premier, Pedro Blanquier, chose his Cabinet from the majority civilian parties. Although a member of the Radical party, he is known as being independent and fearless...