Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced that Dr. Howard Lee McBain, dean of the faculty of Political Science at Columbia University (whence have come so many Roosevelt experts), had been invited to Cuba to redraft Cuba's election laws, because "the 1934 Presidential election must be entirely beyond suspicion...
Cocktail Hour (Columbia) relates the story of an artist (Bebe Daniels) who wants to live "the free life." Cynthia Warren is first seen in her studio putting the last touches on an advertising poster while admiring friends ply her with cigarets, drink and music. To the telephone calls of people begging for her work she is disdainfully aloof. Randy Morgan (Randolph Scott) is the only man Cynthia considers marrying. In spite of his pleading, she sails unwed for a vacation in Europe. En route she meets an attractive bounder (Sidney Blackmer) who dazzles her with poetic maunderings and the information...
Below The Sea (Columbia). Beginning with a somewhat incredible premise, this picture shows a U. S. destroyer sinking a German submarine laden with $3,000,000 in gold in the South Seas during the War. Captain Schlemmer (Fredrik Vogeding) escapes with one shipmate, kills him on a desert island. Years later he ships with a lady oceanographer (Fay Wray) on her yacht bound for the site of the sunken treasure. Also along is a diver (Ralph Bellamy), who is at first more interested in his craft than in Miss Wray. The iniquitous Teuton, best actor in the cast, soon shows...
Varsity wrestling--December 16, M. I. T.; January 12, Tufts; February 9, Springfield; February 10, Navy; February 16, Columbia at New York; February 17, Princeton at Princeton; February 23, Brown; March 3, Yale...
...made 18 hits against Yale's four pitchers and put last Saturday's game on ice, 12-5. Yale has probably the strongest team in the East with the exception of Holy Cross, and stands second in the Eastern Intercollegiate League with excellent prospects of taking the crown from Columbia. Last year Yale romped home with the title after trailing in the beginning of the season and if they win the three remaining games on their schedule they will nose out the Lions...