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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House's week was enlivened by a fight in the California delegation. Democrat Alfred J. Elliott received by mistake a check for $100 made out to Republican Bertrand W. ("Bud") Gearhart by a Mrs. Gertrude Achilles of Morgan Hill, Calif., urging passage of a bill to create John Muir-Kings Canyon National Park. Mr. Elliott had the check photostatted, sent it back to California for remailing, set the FBI to watch for its cashing, and told people to watch him catch Bud Gearhart taking a bribe. When he got the check, Bud Gearhart returned it to Mrs. Achilles honestly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Undone | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Phillip deN. Ruprecht, Ernest J. Sargeant, William J. Shallow, John H. Sisson, Stanley E. Slivkin, B. Sheffield West, Samuel W. White, Charles F. Whiting, Calvin Williams, and Henry C. Wynn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORTY-SIX NAMED AS JUNIOR USHERS AT COMMENCEMENT | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

Those leaving at the end of the year include the following instructors: Joe S. Bain to the University of Colorado; Glenn H. Craig to the University of Montana; J. Kenneth Galbraith, who holds a faculty appointment, to Princeton; John P. Miller '32 to Princeton for a year; Spencer Pollard '32, to the Sloan Foundation of New York University, where he will direct a movie educational campaign in economics; Kenyon F. Poole '29, to Brown; George P. Reynolds '20, to Johns Hopkins; and Harold F. Williamson to Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Termination of Eight Appointments in Department of Economics Is Revealed | 5/9/1939 | See Source »

Professor Shapley's talk followed and expanded an exposition by Dr. Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy, of the attempt to disclose the Internal structure of the universe by work on the Milky Way. Bok is attempting to prove that the Milky Way is a rotating spiral nebula and has based his work on the ninety years research on external galaxies which the Observatory has conducted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTLYING STAR HALOES DESCRIBED BY SHAPLEY | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Just as Donald J. Grout, assistant in Music, was about to cross Harvard Square last night, a big limousine containing a beautiful blonde in the back seat drove up to the curb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WHAT ARE THOSE BUILDINGS!" ASKS BLONDE VISITOR TO YARD | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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