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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more G-men flew in after him. Divers groped in old limestone quarries and pools; volunteer speedboats toured the keys; Seminoles and white trappers searched in the poisonous Everglades; planes scoured the wide, wild tip of the peninsula-all looking for a child they no longer expected to find alive...
...year and a half the Mormon Church has made desperate efforts to find jobs for its members and keep them off relief. But in Salt Lake City, 81 -year-old President Heber Jeddy Grant of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ruefully stroking his beard, last week told the press that the biggest obstacle to his security program is the willingness of Latter-day Saints to be seduced by Government checks. The No. 1 Mormon admitted that he now has to be content with urging his charges who take WPA jobs to give an honest...
Theme of Holiday is the dilemma of a young man forced to choose between marrying an heiress, who is ambitious to have him take a profitable job in her father's bank, and his own desire to stop making money and take a holiday to find out what life is all about. Johnny Case solves his problem neatly by leaving his fiancee, Julia, to rusticate in the Seton mansion, eloping with her older sister, Linda, who shares his disdain for her family bankroll. If, even in 1928, it was a little difficult to take seriously the plight...
...also upheld the statement of President Conant in response to the investigating committee when he refused to reappoint the two men when it said, "the Corporation is of the opinion that it would be both unwise and impractical to follow the Committee's recommendations. We find no difficulty in accepting the judgment of the President and Fellows, in preference to that of the Committee, as to whether mistakes were made because of understandings among different departments of the University, whether President Conant's ruling in rgard to promotions was ill-advised, etc. Decision on these and related subjects should...
Believing it would "increase the distrust now held by many" concerning the impartiality of the attitude a taken by college corporations in academic cases, Davis expressed the hope that Harvard might find some way to right the "great wrong" done to Drs. Walsh and Sweezy...