Word: halls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Raymond, a private detective who had been hired by a group of reformers to get dirt on the administration of Mayor Frank L. Shaw. When the bomb was traced to two of Mayor Shaw's intimates on the police force, public indignation blew the mayor out of City Hall. In a special election in September, Los Angeles voters recalled seamy Mayor Shaw, installed curly-headed, cherubic Superior Judge Fletcher Bowron as his successor (TIME, Sept...
Missing since Thursday when he packed up and left college, the wherabouts of Robert Isaac Myerson '42 of Wigglesworth Hall and Brooklyn, New York, were still unknown last night...
When the University reached into the depths of its corporate pocket and brought forth a $3000 loan for the new cooperative dining hall, it not only rescued a praiseworthy venture from the brink of failure but also established an excellent precedent for the handling of future student enterprise...
Here, when many months of work were about to go to naught, the University stepped in. After recanvassing the real estate agencies and finding that even Harvard University could not rent a dining hall near the Square, they began to look nearer home. Under their very eyes they found what weeks of search had failed to produce; and if one is inclined to wonder why the basement of Andover Hall was such an elusive-prize, only praise can be offered for the way in which the whole matter was finally concluded...
...much for the gift of a convenient room, for the generous loan, or even for the fact that they have made possible a graduate dining hall, that the University deserves the highest praise. Rather it is because they have recognized and rewarded the students whose courage and perseverance so fully deserved success. Harvard men with similar ideas and the will to succeed will be grateful for the precedent thus established...