Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Very different, however, is the condition of the baby's eyes which the health officer [Dr. George C. Ruhland] of the District of Columbia is endeavoring to avert. A certain number of children in every community are infected at birth or soon after with a most virulent pus, often gonorrheal, which gets into their eyes from the birth passages of the mother. It excites an inflammation so intense that in many cases the eyes are irrevocably lost before it can be controlled. The discovery made more than half a century ago, that the organisms causing this inflammation could...
...negotiations were still deadlocked when an I.A.T.S.E. official telephoned the Guild's Founder-Secretary Kenneth Thomson, promised to call a sympathetic walkout of his 30,000 members if the Guild struck. At that, the producers' representatives knuckled under. On behalf of RKO, Paramount, MGM, Columbia, Universal and Twentieth Century-Fox, Twentieth Century's Chairman Joseph M. Schenck and MGM's Vice President Louis B. Mayer squeezed their signatures at the bottom of an agreement to the Guild's demands, scribbled on a sheet of foolscap. Prime points were granting of a Guild shop (virtually closed...
Back from several weeks in Mexico City, kindly, grizzled Professor John Dewey of Columbia University spoke in Manhattan last week to an audience of 3,500. His subject was the elaborate mock trial of Leon Trotsky, held in 13 sessions at Mexico City in March and April, at which Professor Dewey had presided. Object of the trial was to prove or disprove the accusations of treason, sabotage and fomenting world revolution hurled against absent Leon Trotsky during the last mass treason trial in Soviet Russia. Because he felt that the committee of professional liberals from the U. S. heading...
...Columbia Lineup will have August Ganzenmuller at number one, supported by Ray Antignot, Charles Gilbert, Robert, Enrich, David Mason, and James Wall...
Tennis versus Columbia at Divinity Courts at 1:45 o'clock...