Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Meadow Prison, Comstock, N. Y., Earl Peacox, sentenced in 1928 to 20 years-to-life for the murder of his wife, passed his college entrance examinations, planned to enter the correspondence school of Columbia University...
...Hawks (Columbia). As a realistic picture of modern commercial aviation, Air Hawks would be hard to take. Fortunately it is nothing more serious than a horror story hoisted aloft and sustained there by familiar mechanisms: a diabolical invention, a lovely cabaret singer used as the dupe of a crew of villains, trap doors, a comedy reporter, murder, young love and a mysterious gang chief photographed from behind, who turns out to be the man you least suspect. Before long the roguish tendencies of the executives of Transcontinental Airways have been stimulated to such a pitch by the refusal of Ralph...
Burly, whimsical Author Christopher Morley was appointed Honorary Night Watchman of the Columbia University Press. Salary: 2 ? per year. Said Watchman Morley: "It will certainly be a lot easier than Al Smith's job as Honorary Night Superintendent of the Central Park...
...market closed. When Mr. Parish walked into his office, Mr. Payne said: "How do you like it?" Missouri-Kansas stock had plummeted 15 points. To recoup his losses Pipeman Parish had to sell a half-interest in a Missouri-Kansas subsidiary. Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line, to a subsidiary of Columbia Gas & Electric...
When last year's Pulitzer Prizes were announced, the news amounted to little more than confirmation of what Gossiper Walter Winchell had already told the world. Determined to safeguard every breath of thunder, the Columbia University Trustees this year canceled the customary advance releases to the Press, kept the winners' names secret for the formal announcement last week at a Manhattan banquet...