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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Avukah, American Student Zionist Federation, announces the opening of competition for its Third Annual Palestine Work Fellowships. The awards provide for a year's stay in Palestine, chiefly in the collective settlements; first hand opportunity is also given for observing the new developments in Palestine and the workings of the Histadrut, or General Federation of Labor...
...immediate question is the merit of the measure; a measure which is for the well-being of the country should not be rejected out of hand because of the circumstances under which it was proposed". Thus argues Henry H. Hart, Jr. '26 in his Alumni Bulletin article favoring President Roosevelt's Supreme Court proposal...
When the Denver Post, where he was next employed, discontinued its morning edition in 1928, Watson started back East in a second-hand flivver with his wife, then pregnant, and $25 capital. At Fremont, Neb. they ran out of gas and money, but got on to Chicago where Watson landed a job with the AP, which in time shifted him to its New York office. There his job, besides rewriting and editing, included important reporting assignments...
...screen, the competition between Bernie and Winchell is definitely unfair. Muttering "Yowsah," "Mosta of the bestah," and other dubious coinages with which he has enriched the U. S. language, Bernie manages to chew his cigar with dignity but otherwise does himself less than justice. Columnist Winchell on the other hand gives a performance which indicates that among Producer Zanuck's recent screen discoveries he may rate as an attraction second only to the Dionne Quintuplets. Aided by previous acting experience, first in Gus Edwards' troupe of vaudeville children, later as a hoofer, Winchell's impersonation of himself...
Occasionally Hart Schaffner & Marx also helps out its suppliers. After the post-War inflation, American Woolen Mills went to the company cup in hand, requesting $200,000. Mr. Schaffner drummed his desk when asked what he thought about it, then said: "Times are pretty hard. Better let them have a million...