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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These questions are the main concern nowadays of dark, academically-bent Dan Golenpaul, originator of Information Please. An editorial board of Manhattan literati helps him sift them each week, picking tough ones, tossing out triteness or trouble. Current politics, controversies, affairs, etc., are generally taboo. Biblical allusions are out, too, ever since John Kieran attributed a bit of Scripture to "the Bronx version," and brought on a flood of sanctimonious protest. For a question accepted, Canada Dry pays $5, and $10 more plus the Encyclopedia Britannica if it stumps the experts. The Britannica prize was added last month. First winner...
...Morehouse) was that U. S. youngsters should get a new set of heroes. To conventional U. S. heroes, such as Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Miss Morehouse proposed to add: Buffalo Bill, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Wright Brothers, Elias Howe, Booker T. Washington, G. W. Carver, Cyrus W. Field, Jane Addams, Dan Beard, Richard Byrd, Charles Lindbergh...
...victim Handsome Dan IV. English bulldog mascot of the Yale football team, rallied sharply late last night, and veterinarian Dr. S. Johnes gave the dog an even chance to pull through. Suffering from a serious paralysis of his posterior extremities, Dan was given slight hope in earlier dispatches from New Haven...
...mascot, who made his first appearance last Saturday, was injured Tuesday night. His predecessor, Handsome Dan III, who has been in retirement because of declining years, will undoubtedly replace him at the Army-Yale clash. Handsome Dan III went into retirement quite willingly after the last Crimson-Blue till...
...such old-line, hardshell, Laborites as the Carpenters' Republican Bill Hurcheson, the little photo-engraving union's tiny Republican Matt Woll, the Bricklayers' rich, potent Harry Bates. The man most likely to lead the new forces, when and if they break into power, is smart, Democratic Dan Tobin. It was open talk around the convention that he would go after Bill Green's job in 1940, striking a strategic bargain meanwhile with Hutcheson & Co., who are none too pleased with wishywashy Mr. Green...