Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major General David Prescott Barrows (political science chairman, onetime president of the university): "Entertaining, irrelevant and 200% American...
Having had fun writing their report, the authors of Guide to Courses announced that a move was afoot to publish a bigger & better one, on the scale of the university catalogue, ratings to be based on a general student poll. This week the daily Californian began to publish results of such a poll, conducted by German Professor Franz Schneider (no rating). Said Guide to Courses: "Such student-controlled criticism might help the teaching staff considerably...
...that once reported football still wrote their bylines on the sports pages last week. In the New York Sun and some 125 other papers Grantland Rice went on murmuring genteel phrases that made football sound as leisurely as golf, as intellectual as chess. But Damon Runyan had become a general columnist and short-story writer; so had Paul Gallico. Westbrook Pegler discoursed solemnly about politics, as did Heywood Broun. William O'Connell McGeehan and Ring Lardner were dead...
...Great Lakes division of efficient, profitable National Steel (which has a tonnage production monopoly in Detroit) had to close one of its 16 open-hearth steel ingot furnaces for too long deferred repairs. New York's Journal of Commerce commented sagely: ". . . May be a forerunner of a general condition in the industry...
First to snap up the bargain rates for Fair-owned buildings was big Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. General Electric, Ford, General Motors, Firestone, Carrier Corp. also signed up. By week's end Florida was the only State to renew her contract; Ohio the only one (of 33) to say she wouldn...