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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London. Except for the Harvard-Yale football game, the greatest event of the year for Harvard or Yale men is Race Day at New London. It is not only the traditional boat race (that started back in 1852) that lures every alumnus who can get away for a day from the serious pursuits of life, but also the fun of wading through the broken glass in the Mohican Hotel and shouting long-forgotten nicknames through the narrow streets of Connecticut's famed old whaling port...
...looked like the finale of an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration in The Bronx's Yankee Stadium one night last week. The murky sky was suddenly illuminated with scores & scores of blinding flashes of light as photographers frantically realized that they had to get a whole evening's work into a few fleeting seconds. In the centre of the field, in a little canvas ring, German Boxer Max Schmeling, who was challenging Negro Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship of the world, was collapsing physically and professionally like a sky rocket...
...get all this effectively started, analysts headed by onetime Under-Secretary of the Treasury Arthur Atwood Ballantine recommended that trustees of at least New York City hospitals form a hospital council and cooperate instead of working at cross-purposes as they often do. And such a hospital council, the most conciliating, effective hospitaler of the megalopolis, President David Hunter McAlpin Pyle of the United Hospital Fund, last week was all ready to organize...
...settlement houses and alumnae contribute the scholarships, $250 for each girl. A committee scouts the country for likely students of 20 to 35, for whom the only requirements are a sixth-grade education, three years' working experience and enrollment in local study groups. Some students get leaves of absence from their employers; a few give up their jobs to take the course...
...needed cash. Its charges have zoomed steadily for years, now total $32,000,000 annually on fixed obligations of $674,000,000. In January, B. & O.'s resourceful President Daniel Willard got an $8,233,000 RFC loan through his good friend, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones. To get it he had to put up all his available collateral-including the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which has not been used for shipping since 1923. Last week, B. & 0. again needed funds to meet $1,700,000 in interest payments due first of this month. No less resourceful than his father, Daniel...