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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just heard of a thing that happened to an anthropologist connected with Harvard who got back some months ago from two years in East Africa. He was going through the Grand Central here, his mind still full of scientific data, including skull measurements and the shape of crania, when he caught sight of a Redcap who seemed unmistakably to have the Semitic cast of features of the Swahili Africans. He went up to the darky and began jabbering away in Swahili, and in a couple of seconds the Redcap was down bumping his head on the floor and thrashing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swahill | 9/23/1933 | See Source »

Mower A-11: Kendrick N. Marshall '21, of Brockton, Mass. (Brockton High School). Recently returned to Harvard after several years in the Far East. Now an instructor and tutor in Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY-FIVE PROCTORS APPOINTED FOR YEAR | 9/22/1933 | See Source »

...think it is exaggerating to say that millions of people in this country and in Canada will consider this act by you and your company an act of public benefaction. It is superfluous to add that your company will benefit by this program from an advertising standpoint. J. HOLMAN EAST St. Louis, Mo. ... I believe that your sponsoring of "The March of TIME" will prove another achievement of the list now to your credit, and I am sure that a vast radio audience will ever feel grateful to you and to TIME for the instructive pleasure in store for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 18, 1933 | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...Peter Christopolus' resemblance to his own son, who had been drowned at 17 a year before. He decided to adopt Peter, arranged for a six-week trial after which he might educate him, train him in the dye business, make him his heir. In July Peter Christopolus traveled East amid much publicity. The Strengs posed with him this way and that for photographers, Mr. Strengs accentuating his role of fond papa, and Daughter Jeanne Strengs, 14, hovering affectionately. They took Peter, rosy-cheeked and twinkle-eyed, to Lake Hopatcong, N. J. where Dyer Strengs enjoys boating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Orphan's Return | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...Pine Street, Manhattan, a middle-aged woman pointed at him. Her two male companions accosted him, showed badges, marched him off to Old Slip police station, a tiny building, modeled after a Florentine palazzo, that stands among dingy tea and spice warehouses down on the East River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Y in Jail? | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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