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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fleet was returned to the Atlantic largely because President Roosevelt wanted the East to get the commercial benefit at least until late autumn of its $1,000,000 monthly payroll. As Commanders-in-Chief, most Presidents run the Navy only nominally, mak-ing appointments and issuing orders only as their Secretaries of the Navy may require. President Roosevelt, however, runs the Navy in fact. At first his election was viewed by the Navy with alarm. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels came close to wrecking the service's esprit and morale with his politics and naval men recalled that...
...second time," he explained, "I quit." One morning last week he was in Bienville Parish, La. as a special highway patrol officer. With him were three Texas officers. Sheriff Jordon of Bienville Parish and a deputy. There they met two people for whom Captain Hamer had been look-ing for the last six months. One was a red-haired Dallas girl whose maiden name was Bonnie Parker. Her distinguishing characteristics were a lightning trigger finger, a fondness for cigars, and a heart bearing the name "Roy" tattooed on her thigh. Roy Thornton was the name of her husband, but since...
...Bryn Mawr girl in her major subject. Bryn Mawr's only Chinese student, Vung-Yuin Ting majors in chemistry, is one of the campus' friendliest and best-liked girls. She is treasurer of the Athletic Association, was president last year of the International Club. Her father, Zoong Ing Ting, is a Shanghai physician. Her aunt, Dr. Vung Ting, China's No. 1 woman physician, is head of Tientsin's Women's Hospital. When she finishes at Bryn Mawr next year Vung-Yuin Ting plans to go to the University of Michigan Medical School, then back...
...stage while the voices of expert singers would come from behind the scenes by electrical transmission. Such ventures require money and Stokowski's Orchestra has had trouble enough paying its routine way this season. Most Philadelphians felt that they had Mary Louise Curtis Bok to thank for sav ing their city's opera reputation. She has been quietly attending all the Orchestra's board meetings. She still owns the scenery and costumes used by the Philadelphia Grand Opera. Only a professional com pany can give her Curtis Institute pupils the experience they need. The Philadelphia Grand Opera...
...probably the youngest woman ever to undergo a caesarean section. But they could not claim that she was the youngest woman ever to become a mother. Woman's capacity to bear children begins at puberty. That comes earliest in hot climates, latest in cold, with ages rang ing from 9 or 10 in some parts of South America to 17 or 18 in Lapland. A survey some years ago indicated that the average age of puberty in the U. S. was 13. Authorities believe that it is now going down, especially among the well-nurtured upper classes. Few years...