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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University in making up its new budget must face these pressing demands sooner or later, and a quick elimination of these persisting relics of a past will promote the efficiency of ordinary college life...
Elliott Dinwiddy (Charles Ruggles) runs his department store and his love life at the dictates of the constellations. Both face a crisis when Dinwiddy learns from his astrologer (Andrew Tombes) that for the first time in 15 years his horoscope is right for a proposal of matrimony to his secretary. Myrtle Tweep (Marjorie Gateson). His success, from a planetary point of view, depends upon his bringing together before midnight, a pair of youthful lovers. Dinwiddy's attention settles on a cirl, Caroline Wilson (Eleanore Whitney) who, hiding in the honeymoon cottage in the furniture department when the store detective...
...storm. It all reflected, said Dr. A. G. McNish, authority on the earth's magnetism, in Washington last week for a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, the worst magnetic storm in a century. This in turn was due to a great magnetic storm which swept across the face of the sun four days earlier and sent a gust of electric corpuscles toward the earth at 270 mi. per sec. Such violent sun storms will probably recur every 27 days (time for the sun to revolve once) until some time in 1939. That year will mark a height...
...fizzled as other sugar countries simply increased theirs. The Cuban-sponsored Chadbourne restriction plan, which Manhattan Lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne sold to world producers in Brussels in 1931 behind a smokescreen of U. S. press-agentry, failed from the beginning because quotas agreed upon were too high in face of declining world demand. Typical was the quota asked by Java during the Chadbourne negotiations: 3,300,000 tons per year. Admonished that their country had never produced that much sugar, the Javanese replied: "No, but we will some day." They accepted 2,300,000 tons...
With over three hundred men of the Class of 1940 refused admission to the Houses, and with all but a few odd rooms praceled out on the first assignment last Saturday, the University has been brought face to face with the most serious problem since the inception of the House Plan. For if the House can cope with only two-thirds of each sophomore class, the question of where to put the remainder and which the Houses bring to the rest of the College looms all-important...