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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Times Holding Company Ltd. which controls the profitable paper, and John Walter, fifth generation descendant of the Times's founder. Shareholder Astor of the English branch of the Astor family, bought the holdings of the late Viscount Northcliffe 15 years ago. To insure that no unworthy shall gain control of the Times, no transfer of common shares by a living holder to anyone except Owners Astor and Walter can be made without approval from an austere committee whose members are the Speaker of the House of Commons, Governor of the Bank of England, Warden of All Souls, Oxford, Master...
...high schools. . . . Although your magazine is not openly against the Catholic religion, it is covertly averse to our religion which, alter all. embodies the whole moral law. From time to time there have been some articles lauding Catholicism but I feel that they are used for "bait" to gain Catholic readers to your list of subscribers. Why criticize the Church in such a cowardly way? Why not stand upon your own two feet and say: This magazine is definitely opposed to Catholicism? I am sure that you would earn more respect and esteem than that which you now hold...
...Colorado had romped over all its opponents. The question was whether Whizzer White would regain from Sid White (no relation) of Brooklyn the national scoring lead among college footballers. When the Colorado-Denver game began, Sid was ahead of Whizzer 113-to-100. This season Whizzer had averaged a gain of more than seven yards every time he carried the ball, had averaged 45 yards with his punts, had completed nearly half the forward passes he had thrown, and Denver was prepared to bottle him up. But Denver's preparations did no good. He scored three touchdowns, threw passes...
After a certain modification of the government's attitude, business revived, so that the fixed investment income of Harvard rose in 1935-36 to $4,770,578.49. But the actual gain in dollars to the University has been more than offset by the sharp and phenomenal rise in prices during the past year. From the point of view of the educational institutions of this country it is unfortunate that the bond-holding classes are so weak at the polls...
...appeared in a statement included in the annual report of Henry L. Shattuck '01, Treasurer of the College. Total receipts of the H.A.A. for the 1936-37 academic year rose to $564,571.09, an increase of $44,397.47 over the 1935-36 income. But the difference was not pure gain, since guarantees paid to visiting teams climbed to $174,015.15 from $139,303.65 last year, cutting into the increased intake...