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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost ignored for the past decade, the U. S. housing problem has come rapidly to the fore since President Hoover's Conference on Home Building & Home Ownership last December. The U. S. is poorly housed. Probably less than half of its homes measure up to "minimum standards of health and decency." Its slums are among the worst in the world. Only one out of four farms has central light and heat, running water, a bathroom. One source of improvement will come from putting attractive homes within the reach of the small wage-earner who hitherto has given...
...Harvard's stellar field, men come to the fore from scratch, both registering excellent throws. A. C. Kidder '33 won this event with a hurl of more than 47 feet, the best which has been done on Soldiers Field in some time...
Liberal handicaps and latent talent combined to bring many inexperienced field men to the fore in the three events of the annual winter handicap track meet held on Soldiers field Yesterday. The majority of the events are slated for today and should attract University letterman, graduate students, and freshman. Yesterday Freshmen did well throughout, excelling in the high jump, which resulted in a quadruple tie between three Freshmen and a Sophomore...
...museum is a U-shaped building of pure Georgian design containing a New York rarity?a real garden in its fore court. Only two floors of exhibits were on view last week but these contained enough shows to stir the civic pride of the most callous. There was Peter Stuyvesant's sword, Alexander Hamilton's desk, a set of George Washington's false teeth and the last of his real ones?extracted by Dentist John Greenwood and worn on his watch fob for many years, an idea later adopted by members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. There...
Died. Louis Eugene Jeffries, 63, long time (since 1918) vice president & general counsel of Southern Ry. ; at a hearing be fore the Interstate Commerce Commission, in Washington; of a heart attack. Mr. Jeffries was also vice president & gen eral counsel of several other railroads, including Alabama Great Southern and Georgia, Southern & Florida. In Washington's Knickerbocker Theatre disaster (1922) he lost two of his six children...