Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five games in five days, the Varsity baseball team will have one of the most strenuous spring trips it has ever undertaken. Starting on April 6 and continuing through the 10th, the nine plays George Washington University at Washington, Navy at Annapolis, Virginia at Charlottesville, Georgetown at Georgetown, and Columbia at Bakers Field, New York...
Canny Mr. Quezon traveled in the opposite direction to Manhattan. At Columbia University he made an address on the beauties of the Philippine Constitution...
...industrial legislation working on the railroads, passed a pension law for the 1,500,000 railroad employes of the U. S. In May 1935 the Supreme Court threw out that first Railway Pension Act along with NRA. Before the summer was out Congress tried again. The District of Columbia Supreme Court found the second law unconstitutional. So although the Social Security Act has been debated, passed and in force for a year, there is yet no railroad pension law in operation. Last week it appeared that one soon would be, but not until a third pension plan had Congressional approval...
Died. Wesley M. Coates, 29, codesigner of a new 1,200,000-volt X-ray machine for treating cancer in Columbia University's Institute of Cancer Research; by electrocution, after brushing against a 5,000-volt feed-in wire; in his X-ray room...
...THERE is any person who might just as well have been a graduate of Jack Oakie's College on the Columbia network for Camels, it's John Held, Jr., master of ceremonies of the Pontiac Varsity Show over NBC, the show which already may have saluted your campus. John Held, Jr., actually went to no college at all. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he started work as a cartoonist at the age of 18. Thereafter he studied youth in the college of experience and found it as dizzy, as dance mad, as genially addle-pated as Jack Oakie...