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...Civil War pensions. It gave one to the widow of the Civil War President. Mary Todd Lincoln's $3,000* a year was the first pension for a Presidential widow. Since then pensions have been granted to nine other Presidential widows-Julia Gardiner Tyler, Sarah Childress Polk, Julia Dent Grant, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Ida Saxton McKinley, Edith Carow Roosevelt, Helen Herron Taft, Edith Boiling, Galt Wilson, Grace Goodhue Coolidge. Last week this polite beneficence was impolitely questioned for the first time...
Gained by the Guild was a contract guaranteeing that of the 206 strikers, 166 will be rehired, the other 40 fired, given 20 weeks' severance pay. The Guild had demanded, but did not get, a preferential shop. And the Guild put an awful dent in its treasury supporting the strike at $3,000 a week...
Professor Edward J. Dent, head of the music department of Cambridge University, England, will give a public lecture here tomorrow evening on "The History of the Fugue" in the Music Building, at 8:30 o'clock...
Internationally known as a musicologist, Dent has written the standard studies of the works of the Italian composer, Alessandro Searlatti, and the operas of Mozart. He has for many years been president of the International Music Society...
About that time one of the feeblest teams in big-time competition was the Blue Devil aggregation of mighty, tobacco-rich Duke, which, having re-entered football in 1920 after a lapse of 25 years, had changed coaches almost every year without making any appreciable dent on its neighbors. On Jan. 15, 1931 Wallace Wade went to Durham as football coach and athletic director at an undisclosed salary (reputedly $15,000 plus a share of the gate receipts). That fall Duke did nothing notable except tie its ancient rival, the University of North Carolina, 0-to-0. In 1932 Duke...