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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After taking a pack at the Harvard undergraduate's "inimitable balance", the Chicago muckraker crisis's the unplanned curriculum here, which, like To pay, just grew." He deeply regress that Harvard has no nifty surrey court and educational integrated like Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Is Severely Criticized by Article in U. of Chicago Publication | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

...weeks Broadway has had a dazed look in its eyes, a toothy grin on its face, and its itching fingers crossed. For, week by week, the line in front of its box offices grew longer and longer. Broadway was frightened to look for reasons, for fear of jinxing itself. But plausible reasons there were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Gold Rush | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...subjects for this mural precise Alfred Shriver knew exactly whom he wanted: ten ladies whom he had known and admired from his youth up. Some of them: Mrs. Bruce Gotten, called by the Baltimore Sun "one of the most beautiful women that ever grew up in this city"; Mrs. J. Lee Tailor, who in middle age still had "the most exquisite coloring, with perfect Titian hair and eyes the color of violets"; Mrs. James Brown Potter, who did not marry until she was 38, when the Sun enthused: "The most beautiful violet grown in Richmond was named for her. . Possibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Baltimore Beauties | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Except by comparison with other industries the utilities have no reason to be cocky about a 20% sales growth since 1929. Between 1922 and 1929 they grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Capacity Wanted | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Wing, Minn., on the sweetgrass prairie 60 miles from Minneapolis, there grew up the son of a wholesale grocer who was the victim of two apparently irreconcilable ambitions-to be a minister and to make moving pictures. His name was James Friedrich. For two years at the University of Minnesota young Friedrich was a 16 mm. movie bug, ran the Bell & Howell camera supply agency. Still resolved to be a minister, he transferred to the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Va. There pious, cinemad James Friedrich set a precedent by writing his doctor's thesis (on the life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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