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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campus grass, musing on his graduation next month, the U. S. Office of Education held up a glass through which he might look at his future. It had made (with WPA's help) the first national study of how college men and women fare after graduation.* It got its answers from some 46,000 alumni, vintages 1928 to 1935, of 31 representative institutions including Boston University, New York University, University of Chicago and University of Southern California; State universities such as Vermont's and Illinois'; small institutions such as Duquesne, Mercer, Colorado State; but not such colleges...
...Biggest single group (one-third) got their first jobs by going out and hunting for them. One-fourth got jobs through experience gained in self-support during college, about one-fifth through college placement bureaus, one-tenth through family influence, 2% through fraternity contacts...
Opened with simple readings and invocations by such diverse characters as radical Bishop Francis John McConnell of the late Northern church, reactionary Bishop James Cannon of the late Southern church, the Conference got under way when its co-chairmen-suave Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes (North), slight Bishop John Monroe Moore (South), Dr. James H. Straughn (Methodist Protestant)-said simultaneously: "This we do reverently in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." The unison would have been perfect except that Bishop Moore said "Holy Ghost...
Last week Chemists Arthur Steinberg & William Redman Brown of Philadelphia's Kensington Hospital for Women proudly set out for Toronto to tell the American Physiological Society about their amazing new discovery: oxalic acid for rapid coagulation of blood. But when the young chemists got to Toronto, they were scientifically hissed & booed. Reason: oxalic acid, a common cleaning fluid and ink remover, is used by physicians in a derivative form to prevent coagulation of blood for transfusions. It was impossible, said the scoffing physiologists for an anticoagulant to produce coagulation...
South of Labrador the going got tough. Great clouds stacked up along the course with their bases almost on the water. Hardbitten Vladimir Kokkinaki, Brigadier-General of the Russian Air Force, Hero of the Soviet Union, went on instruments. Higher and higher he climbed his red two-motored bomber, of a type used by Russians fighting for Loyalist Spain. Dirty grey mist still dripped dismally off wing and windshield. Nineteen hours out of Moscow, with all the Atlantic behind him, he was tired. But New York City, his destination, was only five hours' flight ahead...