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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Persuaded by President Hoover, Thomas Hildt, partner in an old Baltimore banking house (Alex Brown & Sons), consented to become financial adviser of the Federal Farm Board. His task: organizing a banking division to administer the $500,000,000 farm loan fund. His remuneration: nothing (by request...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...Berlin an ambitious, shrewd sexagenarian last week asked the public insurance fund to pay for a Steinach reactivation operation upon him. His chief plea was that old age is a common ailment.* Astounded insurance executives fubbed off the old man's demands. To grant them would set a precedent which would upset all their mortality calculations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brain Juice | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Professor Woodberry was the first of the speakers to talk during the spring of this year, under the provisions of the Morris Gray '77 fund for contemporary poetry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACSIMILE EDITION OF RARE BOOK PREPARED | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Three sums of $4,000 each will be taken from the grand total: the first to go to Phillips Brooks House; the second to be reserved for class funds; and the third to be used for the Student Council and organized charities. The money for the class funds will be allotted as follows: to the class of 1930, $1,600, of which $1,000 is a loan for the Senior Album, to be repaid, and $600 a fund for entertainments and general expenses. Of the remaining $2,400, $600 each will be given to the classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSS ANNOUNCES COUNCIL BUDGET FOR COMING YEAR | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...With a fund of good material on hand, the Harvard mentor plans two scrimmages, possibly three, this week in an attempt to cut his present squad of 48 down to more wieldy proportions. This afternoon will find the first string players pitted against Coach Knox's seconds and the two squads will meet again on Wednesday afternoon. There is a possibility of a third scrimmage on Thursday. So far the Crimson squad has engaged in six practice tussles with the scrubs and run through a wide variety of plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HORWEEN LAUNCHES DRIVE FOR OPENER | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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