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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the degree-granting ceremony was well under way, a fresh torrent of rain descended on the Yard. Still confident in his meteorologist, President Conant kept stolidly on. A concerned alumnus broke through Secret Service men to President Roosevelt, whose velvet chair had become sodden, offered an umbrella which Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cambridge Birthday | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

In Muncie, Ind. for a State Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose. Past Moose Director General James John Davis, long-time (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, and now Senator from Pennsylvania, recalled that Muncie's George Alexander Ball, millionaire fruit jar manufacturer, had 40 years ago let a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 28, 1936 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Subscriptions for the "These Hundredth Anniversary Fund" from its announcement on October 22, 1920, to September: 15, 1936. (1) For the general purpose of the Fund without restriction: Anonymous$260,000.00 Anonymous, from a member of the Class of 1984 26,000.00 Mr. Robert Hacon, in memory of her husband...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TERCENTENARY FUND | 9/25/1936 | See Source »

¶ Disillusioned by "President Roosevelt's faithlessness to the Democratic platform of 1932,"Mrs. Dwight F. Davis, who as Mrs. Charles H. Sabin worked for Roosevelt and Repeal in 1932, announced in New York that she will campaign this year for Governor Landon. Said she: "He will encourage thrift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Sneers, Whispers | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

As usual, the mass of the exhibits were exercises in mediocrity. Such artists as Sculptor Concetta Scaravaglione, Muralist James Michael Newell, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Aaron Bohrod and a sprinkling of others were able to produce work which seemed, by contrast, superb. An innovation was a new department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Relief Work | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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