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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington and Jefferson was granted a charter last September at the national convention of the organization in Atlanta, Georgia. The installation exercises were held in conjunction with the annual Founder's Day celebration. Dr. Frank P. Graves, president of Phi Betta Kappa, presided.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pound Addresses New Chapter Of Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity | 11/13/1937 | See Source »

1) A.F. of L. to adopt a policy of strict industrial unionism not only for mass production workers but also for maritime, service, public utility and basic fabricating industries; 2) formation of an autonomous "C.I.O. department" within A.F. of L. with sole jurisdiction over industrial unions; 3) a joint A.F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Road to Peace | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

This Hoover plan is to hold a Republican convention to draw up a platform- just as is done in Presidential elections- before next year's Congressional elections. Some Republican Congressmen, and presumably Alf Landon, fear that votes may be lost locally by a platform assaulting the New Deal. Herbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Strategists Differ | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Many Mansions (by Jules Eckert Goodman and Eckert Goodman; produced by Many Mansions Inc.). Some bad plays, like tortoises, protect themselves by withdrawing everything-beginning, ending, and legs to stand on-under a shell of unassailable convention. Many Mansions' armor plate-the Church-does not succeed altogether in fending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Last week, frankly astonished by his findings, Dean Cecil Kent Drinker of Harvard's School of Public Health went to Chicago to give a convention of the American College of Surgeons his explanation of the functioning of the lymphatic system.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lymphatic Protection | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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