Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motors' publicity department." His brother, Harold Sloan, made director of the foundation, proceeded to purify one of the ten millions by turning over its income to University of Chicago (TIME, Jan. 17). He startled the cynics still further by giving the income from another million to Stephens College (Columbia, Mo.) for consumer education. Conservatives and radicals began to rub their eyes incredulously when they learned three weeks ago what Harold Sloan had done with the third outlay of good capitalist profits...
...third allotment was $9,100 to the Lincoln School, a laboratory for the progressive theories of Columbia University's Teachers College. Purpose of the gift was to finance educational trips for Lincoln students. Fortnight ago the delighted school, which likes nothing better than to bring its students face to face with Life, loaded its entire senior (high school) class of 47 boys and girls on a train and shipped them south, with Principal G. Derwood Baker and six teachers, to study Government planning and Government ownership...
...Columbia basketball team participates in its heaviest weekend of the season when it opposes Harvard at Cambridge tonight and Dartmouth at Hanover on Monday. The Lions enter their New England jaunt with possession of third place in the Eastern Inter-collegiate League and with a season record of eight victories and four defeats...
...world indoor record (on boards) for 60 yards has stood at 6.2 seconds for 15 years. Famed sprinters like Jesse Owens, Eddie Tolan, Ralph Metcalfe have tried but failed to break it. But last week astonished spectators saw Benjamin Washington Johnson of Columbia, a little Negro who is long on medals but short on publicity, register three lightning flashes: the first heat in 6.2 sec., the semi-final in 6.1, the final in 6 seconds flat. To little Ben Johnson went the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy for the outstanding performance of the meet (Millrose Games) and round-the-world acclaim...
Under a pert caricature of New York City's explosive Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia at the art show of the Columbia University faculty appeared...