Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honor of two years of Repeal. I think we have every reason to be moderately satisfied with the results."One result was that, on Repeal's second birthday, a citizen could buy himself a drink of hard liquor across a bar in 28 States and the District of Columbia. Only one State is wholly dry-Alabama. The Federal Government had during the past fiscal year taken in $411,000,000 in liquor taxes. The States had collected many millions more. Consumption was only 70% of the 1917 level, and while 324 cities reported 23,683 arrests for drunken driving...
During the turbulent days following the abdication of the dictator Machado, Cuba was gripped in the throes of fear. A quick succession of presidents, including Grau San. Martin, de Cespedes and finally Mendieta made for suspicion and distrust. The efforts of Dr. BcBain of Columbia resulted in a new electoral system, and the government of the United States was largely instrumental in advising the Cuban government during the remodelling of its constitution. With these vital changes came a feeling of trust and good-will and through the reciprocal tariff agreement Cuba was largely restored to that prosperity which was hers...
However, while these state-operated courses are doing excellent work, Harvard could render a far more valuable service by incorporating within her own curriculum a system of education along the lines of that now in effect in Columbia. There, about 10,000 students, not part of the undergraduate body, are educated each year. With care and patience Harvard could develop and maintain a system of this kind which would be far more valuable than lending out instructors to a separate institution...
...name, it was revealed when he recently married Olive White, his manager, is Lancelot Ross . . . and that's probably what he wrote on his registration blanks at Yale and Columbia . . . Son of a Shakespearean actor, he was born in Seattle . . . and was sent to Taft School in Connecticut for proper eastern bringing up . . . Taft led to Yale and there Lancelot was a track man in '27 against Oxford and Cambridge . . . but being in the Yale Glee Club actually gave him a chance to see oxford and Cambridge...
...student in the Columbia law school, he tried radio at $25 a week . . . and before his degree it was $25,000 a year . . . which settled...