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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expense, Mme Magdeleine La Ferrière ("Magda de Fontages") was ordered deported to France by U. S. District Court Judge Samuel Mandelbaum, who called her Paris coup de pistolet at Count Charles Pineton de Chambrun (TIME, Nov. 22) "an act of baseness, vileness or depravity." Few hours later, free under a $1,000 bail bond, she was ferried to Manhattan to await the outcome of an appeal to the U. S. Circuit Court. Same day Judge Mandelbaum's ruling was made, members of the cast of Manhattan's bankrupt and closed French Casino, where Magda de Fontages...
...Superintendent Vierling Kersey's introduction to Los Angelenos, whose schools he is this year supervising for the first time. He took a "visual education" teacher out of classes to make the photographs, appointed a junior high-school principal as editor. Ten thousand copies costing $10,800 were distributed free to civic leaders, libraries, universities, clubs, public officials...
...Trojan Horse seemed likely to bewilder more readers than it pleased, another Christopher Morley revision of a classic. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, gave free play to his quotation-loving mind, resulted in a fat, handsome volume that was interesting reading, valuable for reference. The first Bartlett's was published in 1855, when Josiah Bartlett, then a Cambridge, Mass, bookseller, brought out his personal collection of apt phrases to show "the obligations our language owes to various authors for ... familiar quotations which have become 'household words.' " By 1891 Bartlett had published nine revisions; the tenth appeared...
Second, there is the possibility that once a closed shop becomes established at Harvard, both officials and students will have to deal with a force which, if in complete power, may wreak great damage, even to the point of closing the dining halls. As a free educational institution Harvard can scarcely take the risk of being circumscribed by an outside force. Impractical demands for higher and higher wages by the closed shop, or objections to the employment of non-union workers in other parts of the University, may foster disputes between the two organizations. As a leader in liberal thought...
...Free public lectures on medical subjects will be offered by the Medical School Sunday afternoons at 4 o'clock beginning January 9 and continuing until March...