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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is an invitation to you do something really worthwhile with this life of yours," Streit concluded, pointing out that if every man waits for his neighbor to take action on the plan, nothing will be accomplished. "You've got to go out and get it yourself if you want this Union!" was his final challenge...
...reduce rents. This could be most easily done by the University's building of a housing settlement for instructors on the vacant land across the river next to the Business School. At present this land is lying idle; at the same time the University is complaining that it cannot get a large enough return on its investments. If it were to build such a project and to charge rents low enough to minimize the cost to the instructor of educating his children, even were the land not to be tax-free, the University still would get over...
...record history . . . Charlie Barnet's "Echoes of Harlem" while not up to the Duke version of same, is quite good . . . The Woody Herman of "Woodchopper's Ball" is a very good side of blues with trombone by Neil Reed. No adjectives needed. . . For some remarkable changes, even for Ellington, get "Something To Live For" (Brunswick) and listen to the introduction. . . Hampton's "Wizzin' the Wizz" is supposed to be even better two fingered piano. I still think that they record him slowly in order to get that "Ride of the Walkyrie" effect...
...chairman of that 'punch-pulling' Student Council Committee, I had the opportunity to get a really intimate picture of the condition," stated the head of the Committee that wrote a twenty page report on tutoring schools two years...
White remarks in his letter that the Committee was surprised at the size of the schools as proven by the poll run at that time but he adds, "from one point of view we had to pull our punches to get anyone to believe...