Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee set up under the District of Columbia's Wage Board, having pondered budgets for salesgirls submitted by employers ($14.50 per week) and employes ($21.50 per week), finally compromised on $17. Last week the New York State Labor Department, which devises its own working-girl budgets, arrived at the figure of $23.30 per week for a woman living alone. For a girl living at home the estimate was $20.70. This was of course pure theory, since the New York laundry industry for which the budget was prepared pays its female help as low as $6 per week...
From the window of his office in the State Penitentiary at Columbia, S. C, Prison Guard Captain Olin Sanders last week shouted to Corporal Charles L. Christmus on duty in the yard below...
...sang Poet Archibald MacLeish in his Frescoes For Mr. Rockefeller's City. The sound kernel of truth in Poet MacLeish's observation has been clinically noted by Columbia's Anthropologist Franz Boas. At the New York Academy of Medicine last week Dr. Charles Rupert Stockard, embryologist, morphologist and anatomist at Cornell Medical School, offered a possible explanation...
...Take Romance (Columbia). Tennessee's soprano, Cinemactress Grace Moore, recently braved wisecracks by showing up in Manhattan with a big, tasty Tennessee ham in her arms (TIME, Dec. 13). Though her new film invites no such unkind wisecracks, neither does it bring home any bacon...
...make the final decision in the dismissal of a student for misbehavior. Harvard, however, seemed to be the only one college that interested itself in the techniques of education. Certainly it is the only one that turns out several reports a year on these problems. Both Princeton and Columbia requested copies of some of the Harvard Council reports, Columbia being particularly interested in these relative to the tutorial system...