Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...levies retroactive to 1926. To take advantage of the new ruling, however, most States will have to amend their income tax laws, which specifically exempt Federal salaries. Especially prompt to act should be Maryland and Virginia, where hordes of Federal folk live near their jobs in the District of Columbia...
Burly, six-foot Henry Ruthvin Smith is one postman who does not go walking on his holidays. After 16 years of lugging a fat mailbag over a regular residential route in Columbia, S. C., even the walking he had to do for the Post Office Department got to be too much. But while other postmen with the same problem met it by foot baths or retirement, Mailman Smith used his head. Last week, with the blessing of the Postmaster General, he was awheel in one of the strangest contraptions that ever carried Uncle Sam's post. Footsore grey-coats...
Born 33 years ago in New York City, Wald attended New York and Columbia Universities. From 1932 to 1934, as a National Research Fellow, he served in the laboratories of some of the most famous biologists of Europe. Five years ago Wald came to Harvard as a Tutor in Biochemical Sciences, and the following year secured his present position in the Biology Department...
What are U. S. parents' chief worries in raising children? To find out, Professor Ernest Osborne of Columbia University's Teachers College and a staff of WPA researchers polled 75,000 parents. They learned that parents were puzzled by such problems as children's tardiness, indifferent eating, reactions to bad movies, need of sex education, boredom during summer vacations, tendencies to jealousy and lying. Last week Dr. Osborne began to distribute a series of mimeographed pamphlets (price: 1? each) advising parents how to solve all these problems. Some Osborne pointers...
...various schools and colleges, had spent $2,500,000 and enjoyed every dollar of it. Among recipients of Hayden money were: Boston University, Boys' Club of New York, Catholic Youth Organization, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, M. I. T. (Charles Hayden's alma mater), Columbia, Stevens Institute, Fordham, New York University. No favorer of races or creeds, Mr. Hayden gave $25 to the Harlem Eye and Ear Hospital...