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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the appearance of a professional diver, 40 men, a dozen spectators, a rowboat, and a pneumatic hammer or air-compressor on Memorial Drive below Dunster House yesterday afternoon, the suspicion dawned, especially on the minds of Dunstermen, that the Strauss Hall feed had assumed new proportions. Such was not the case, however, for although water is the subject out into the river, in order to speed the drainage of storm and surface the drainage of storm and surface water from the vicinity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professional Diver, 40 Men, and 12 Spectators Appear on Charles River Near Dunster House | 11/22/1934 | See Source »

...somewhat juvenile support of Son James Roosevelt got a better office out of the New Deal than the Ambassadorship of Poland which he spurned When Franklin Roosevelt offered it last year. Without the support of many a potent Massachusetts Democrat and in spite of Republican Gasper Bacon's hammer & tongs attack on his record, Votegetter Curley piled up a majority for Governor bigger than the Democratic majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Governors | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

...appeal by a non-existent "Citizens' Co-operative Relief Committee" for donations of clothing, food, room space and money for the 1,500,000 new citizens expected to arrive in the State because of the Sinclair Utopia. A fake "Young People's Communist League" leaflet bore the party hammer-&- sickle and an endorsement of Sinclair. In preparation, said Sinclair headquarters, were 1,000,000 pamphlets alleging that Upton Sinclair had once tried to take out Russian citizenship papers in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: California Finale | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

...Levy '37, E. H. Riddle '37, E. W. James '38, T. Richards '38, R. S. Russell '38, J. L. Senior '38, M. L. Hayward '38, W. Welch '38, J. H. Steinway '38, F. B. Stevens '35, R. C. Jones '38, J. R. Coolidge '38, O. Paul '38, L. Hammer '38, R. L. Gregg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 86 NEW MEN ACCEPTED IN GLEE CLUB TRYOUTS | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

Died. Asa Keyes, 57, besmirched one-time District Attorney of Los Angeles County; of a paralytic stroke; in Beverly Hills. Slashing and ruthless in court, he sent some 5,000 bombers, Bluebeards, hammer murderesses and other felons to prison before he himself was convicted for bribery in connection with the bankruptcy of Julian Petroleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 29, 1934 | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

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