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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prospectus for Dr. Sharp's School for Maturates contains no customary scholastic rules. But no student may be under 70. Classes will be held from 1130 p. m. to 4. There will be no entrance examinations, tuition, compulsory attendance, class or racial distinctions. Classrooms are on the ground-floor to obviate stair-climbing for the incapacitated. Upstairs are living quarters for those unable to go back & forth. Food costs will be shared. Dr. Sharp's widowed sister, Mrs. Jean Torson, will act as housemother. What courses will evolve remains largely a matter of what subjects interest the oldsters...
This exchange perceptibly relieved the feelings of the 1,200 U. A. W. delegates on the floor. Their union, which has mushroomed from 30,000 to 375,000 members since it convened in South Bend, Ind. a year ago, which is now the third biggest union in C. I. 0. (after United Mine Workers) was badly contorted by growing pains. The disagreement between cocky, young Homer Martin and his vice presidents, Wyndham Mortimer and Ed Hall, brewing ever since Martin blamed them for this summer's sporadic "unauthorized" General Motors sitdowns, had reached such a point that President Martin...
...saloon in Lakehurst, N. J. appeared John Henry Titus, 91, with a kerosene-soaked rag in his shoe to ward off mosquitoes. He sank to one knee, and, with gestures, once more recited his famous poem, The Face on the Barroom Floor. Poet Titus said he now makes his living picking huckleberries. He wrote his famed poem in 1872 as the fifth episode of a seven-canto poem: The Ideal Soul. The scene was taken from a tavern in Jefferson, Ohio. There are now more than 1,000 versions that have sprung up anonymously...
...Lazard family and certain other Anglo stockholders against Banker Herbert personally and the bank, charging in substance that he had used his position as Anglo president to wangle profits on the side for himself. This was the suit which last fortnight came to trial on the third floor of San Francisco's post-office building in the marble and plaster-cupid encrusted courtroom of Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure...
...right as we leave this room, the periodical room is seen in which are found periodicals and magazines from all over the world, while above on the third floor are housed special libraries...