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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One midnight last week in Detroit, in a little room of Chrysler's Institute of Engineering, Messrs. Keller, Murray and U. S. Conciliator Jim Dewey had a final private chat. Outside were the union's President Roland Jay Thomas and Richard Frankensteen (whose tactless tactics helped prolong the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Trouble Over | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Last month, curious Chicagoans saw this dream monster in broad daylight. Fathered by the Armour Institute of Technology, of which Dr. Poulter is a scientific director, whelped by the Pullman works and christened Penguin I, it bumbled through the streets on a test run, got stuck under a viaduct. Extricated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Monster | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Gardner reported that, of the seven institutions in China affiliated with the Harvard Yenching University in Peking, only one has remained within the zone now occupied by the Japanese. The bombing of some buildings of the West China Union University, also connected with the Yenching Institute, was an indication that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: China Will Stay Strongly United States Gardner | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

Century ago Colonel Claude Crozet, curly-haired, black-whiskered soldier of Napoleon, State Engineer of Virginia, became first president of the Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute. On November 11, 1839, 32 cadets were admitted to the new school. The contractor had not finished building the barracks, and snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Absentee | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Into the presidency of Kellogg stepped tall, grey-haired, grey-eyed William H. Vanderploeg (rhymes with Kalamazoo). Plucked from a vice-presidency in Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank last July, he had been Kellogg's executive vice president. To the chairmanship retired Will Keith, hoping to devote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: 40 Years Later | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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