Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regulatory commissions of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas clubbed together to ask the I. C. C. to dismiss the railroads' petition. They argued that the Federal commission had no legal authority to up freight rates on a mere showing of financial emergency and that, in addition, the roads had offered no evidence that such an increase would improve their revenues and credit. The I. C. C. postponed consideration of this joint request...
VICTOR W. FLINT Sales Manager Dakota Breeders Hatchery Fargo...
Last week the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce swung to the carriers' support, contended that a rate increase would turn the economic trend.. And to the I. C. C. from the North Dakota Board of Railroad Commissioners came the first formal protest against the carriers' proposal on the theory that its authorization "would greatly prolong" the Depression...
...follows: Daniel Joseph Boorstin '34, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, recent winner of the Coolidge Prize for public speaking; Malcolm Arthur Hoffman '34, of White Plains, New York; Asa Emory Phillips Jr. '34, of Washington, D.C.; Thomas Edward Naughten '34, of Washington, D.C.; George Gore, of Rapid City, South Dakota; John Joseph O'Donnell '34, of Milton; Seymour Marcus Peyser '34, of New York City; and Benjamin Ginsberg, of Daytona Beach, Florida. Two upper-classmen were elected to membership: Jerrold Harold Ruskin '33, of New Rochelle, New York and George Edward Lodgen '32, of Malden. These men were on the Harvard debating...
...broadcasting "appeared" to have an educational purpose. One of the earliest to broadcast was the University of Iowa, which began in 1914, long before radio telephony was perfected. Now many an institution, mostly in the Middle and Far West, gives courses ranging from Low German (University of South Dakota) to Astronomy (Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio). Some of the courses may be taken for college credit (generally by payment of a fee). The Ohio State Department of Education, with a grant from the Legislature and time donated by local stations, sponsors the Ohio School of the Air, open...