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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) U.S. Archivist Robert Digges Wimberly Connor ..................LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos (Cont'd) Jun. 15, 1936 | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Investigator Fritchey followed closely the Grand Jury's graveyard probe. One day, while looking over the subpoenaed books of the Crown Hill Cemetery, Investigator Fritchey, who is fond of detective stories, noted that a block of 1,400 graves had been sold for $82,000 to a Mr. Dacek. Into Investigator Fritchey's mind flashed the astounding possibility that this curious name might be an anagram for that of a Cleveland policeman whom he had long suspected of undue prosperity. The Cuyahoga County prosecutors shortly found that Investigator Fritchey's hunch was correct. "Dacek" was one Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Graveyard Scoop | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Collaborating in the new bus rate schedules are the Short, Blue Ridge, Great Eastern, Safeway Trailways and Greyhound Lines. Their spokesman last week was serious, 44-year-old President Arthur M. Hill of Atlantic Greyhound, president also of the National Association of Motor Bus Operators. In the bus business since the War, he is known as the most traveled man in the industry, spends two out of every three days on the road. Said he last week: "The bus companies south of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi have had to meet this same sort of contingency before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rate Rivalry | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...seemed entirely capable of taking the title back to New South Wales. Amateur champion of Australia at 22, a huge young man whose crude swing is capable of propelling the ball 350 yd., he had won most of his matches with disheartening ease. When he disposed of Alec Hill, who had beaten beefy Cyril Tolley in the quarterfinals, there was no one left between him and the title except Scotland's stylish Hector Thomson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: St. Andrews Finish | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...Boston reporter was inveigled out to Cambridge to interview the committeeman. This gentleman proved to be obliging and presented him with a dazzling galaxy of names which represented the delegation of fair charmers which Beacon Hill was sending to the dance. Having exhausted his memory, and trailing off, as he thought, to a weak conclusion, he was beginning to chew the curds of disappointment when lo!, he had a flash of inspiration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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