Word: last
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succeed the late famed Utilitarian James Simpson, directors of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co. last week elected a new chairman: big, white-haired General Counsel Charles Yoe Freeman...
...Alien Property Custodian after World War I, Francis P. Garvan sold seized German chemical patents to Chemical Foundation, Inc. As president of the Foundation he leased the processes to the industry. Last week the presidency of the foundation, vacant since his death two years ago, was filled again. His successor: 27-year-old lawyer and onetime Yale football manager, Francis P. Garvan...
...last six weeks roughly marked the peak of the fall book season. In that time appeared about 50 novels, representing the labor of about 50 man years. TIME has reviewed the best seven. The remainder have given employment to hundreds of publishers' minions. They will give diversion to thousands of readers. Craftwork rather than Art, they fall into several time-smoothed categories...
...Best of last month's crop of mysteries...
Plans for the Guardian's third annual conference, to be held here Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, were made public last night by John M. London '41, undergraduate chairman of the affair. This year's subject will be a special study of propaganda. Over 200 experts from all over the country have been invited, and at least 100 undergraduates are expected to attend...