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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprise," beamed Sir William, "the parents' choice appears to determine the sons' careers even more than the daughters'." Replies convinced him that British two-child families of today are happier than five-child Victorian families; that there is less intra-family snooping and gossiping and that, as an anonymous British oxyacetylene welder wrote: "No man, young or old, need hesitate at saying that a woman is his friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chain & Flatiron | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...persuades the cuckolded pair to "play it my way" and succeeds in getting the goods on the sinners after innumerable complications. And in the end, in his same omnipotent way, he gets signed confessions, steamship passages, gems, --sorts them out to the various principals, and leaves the world a happier and better place to live...

Author: By F. C. L., | Title: Cinema -:- THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER -:- Drama | 4/13/1932 | See Source »

...better to keep young Americans at home--Maybe they may miss a little science, a little smattering of this or that, but, at least, we shall keep them better Americans and happier and sounder citizens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/11/1932 | See Source »

Said New York's Mayor Walker: "If we had a few more Lewisohns and a few less grouches in this city it would be even a happier place." Occasion: a testimonial concert at Hunter College to Adolph Lewisohn, famed philanthropist and music patron. In the course of eulogies of Mr. Lewisohn by Lieut.-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Lawyer George Gordon Battle et al., it was revealed that a chamber music foundation is being planned by a group of patrons headed by Mr. Lewisohn and including Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Otto Hermann Kahn, Theodore Steinway. Patron Lewisohn declared that he "would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 8, 1932 | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...investigation into the careers of college graduates revealed that those who graduated in a year of depression were more successful than those who left college in happier times. Here at least is some encouragement for the student who finishes his formal education when employment is difficult to obtain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DISCIPLINE OF ADVERSITY | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

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