Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country is in the hands of men who are as competent in the economics as they are in the politics of recovery under capitalism. As an enthusiastic and not unbiased observer of the professional sideshow being staged by the Harvard Economics Department (de facto) and the banks versus the Columbia Economics department (de jure) and the Roosevelt legend, I cannot help but conclude that the latter group has kept more than one step ahead of the former by conjuring up a lot of cardboard windmills, notably gold buying, silver buying, and in a sense, even the N. R. A. itself...
...Mahoney's appointment. In his youth Joe O'Mahoney knew oysters better than he knew horses. Born in Chelsea, Mass, he did not even see a cattle-ranch until at 24 he went to Boulder, Colo. He had worked for the Cambridge Democrat, had graduated from Columbia. At Boulder he became city editor of the Herald. A Bull Moose Re publican in 1912, he supported Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and that same year went to Cheyenne, as city editor of Senator Kendrick's Democratic Cheyenne State Leader. Senator Kendrick took his young editor to Washington...
...best paid male singer ($275,000 a year). For Going Hollywood he got $75,000. He was born in Tacoma, Wash, in 1904. studied law at Gonzaga University, failed to take his bar examination, became a "hot" singer with Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys. When William Paley of Columbia Broad casting System heard a Crosby phono graph record, Bing was hired to sing on the radio for Cremo cigars, imitating Rudy Vallee's low register quavers. Now almost as popular as Vallee in the U. S. and Eng land, Crosby is much more popular else where, partly because...
Engaged. Herbert Edwin Hawkes, 61, Ph. D., mathematician, dean of Columbia College since 1918; and Anna L. Rose, 40, Ph. D., Carnegie Foundation researcher; onetime (1921-29) dean and registrar of George Washington University...
Died. Richard John ("Rich") Glendon Jr., 38, Columbia University's crew coach since 1926. son of the Naval Academy's famed retired crew coach; of a shotgun wound, declared accidental by a medical examiner; while duck shooting near Chatham, Mass...