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Word: davises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Primed for Thanksgiving and Christmas trade, the five stores, which do more than half of downtown Philadelphia's retail trade, had customers by the hundreds turn away from their doors. After a few trucks had been overturned, deliveries came virtually to a-halt. At week's end union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Miniature Revolution | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Not named by the grand jury was Philadelphia's Mayor, S. Davis Wilson, who was last to testify before it. In 1934 he objected to the proposed Philadelphia Co. reorganization as ''a gigantic racket engineered by insiders." Subsequently he approved it, became a director. Also omitted from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Philadelphia Shocker | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Except for the pontifical autobiography that the late John Hays Hammond wrote at the age of 80, U. S. mining engineers have been surprisingly reticent about their world-wide rovings, their climbs up high mountains and descents into the deep earth. Last week a successful mining engineer now little more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mining Engineer | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Bred in an atmosphere of tolerance and infused with the Emersonian doctrine of self-reliance, the student in Cambridge tends to build about himself a crustaccous shell, when it comes to participating in group agitation. Yet in a college where each member, student and faculty alike, is left free to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDIFFERENCE | 11/28/1936 | See Source »

Men appointed assistants in the History Department are: Frederick C. Barghoorn '35, 2G, of Cambridge, Mass.; John C. Campbell '33, 2G, of Cambridge, Mass.; Beverly D. Causey, Jr. 4G, of St. Augustine, Fla.; William A. Davis 2G, of New York, N.Y.; Daniel C. Dennett, Jr. '31, 3G, of Winchester, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIXTEEN MEN RECEIVE FACULTY APPOINTMENTS | 11/27/1936 | See Source »

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