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...loving Toronto broker who bought 20,000 shares of Continental Kirland at one-eighth of a cent per share to send to his friends as Christmas cards in big denomination certificates. After he had mailed every last certificate, the stock suddenly bounced to 80? per share, a 640-fold appreciation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Miners' Mart | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...union affairs took up more & more of his time, Dick Frankensteen quit his Dodge job and he and Johnny Andrews naturally began drifting apart. When most of the independent automobile unions merged with United Automobile Workers last year, he led his A. I. W. A. locals into the fold, became U. A. W.'s chief organizer in the Detroit area. As such, he was in the front trenches when the great General Motors strike (see p. 14) began last December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: U. S. Terror | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...Brooks House pursuit of a mental healer for the distressed Yardlings has its parallel in the currents of life outside the academic fold. The greatly increasing quantities of nervous disorders occurring in our megalopolitan civilization, which was first noticed about 1820 with the final crystallization of the industrial society, have illumined the lack of adequate facilities for treating and especially for diagnosing the maladjusted. Of the cases that now come to the doctors, apparently requiring even surgical treatment, the number that can be found wholly mental in origin is only beginning to be appreciated. And for the first time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 1/20/1937 | See Source »

While waiting to enter Mogul's tent, reporters were requested to inscribe on a piece of paper one question, and only one, which interrogation he was to fold and touch off with a match immediately upon entering. The question was: What will be the outcome of the Two Women Parietal Rule at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clairvoyant in Keith's Grand Lounge Predicts Abolition of Parietal Ruling | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Yale now has steel posts set in concrete installed at a cost of $2000. In one year that Harvard installed similar posts, somebody brought out a block and tackle and pulled the concrete out of the ground along with the posts. The Blue erected her goal posts that fold into the ground last year after a severe criticsm by President Angell concerning student behavior during football games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stadium Keeps Its Wooden Goal Posts, As Yale's Steel Posts Are Scorned By A.A. | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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