Word: lege
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...directors of the plan include: Economist Alvah Eugene Staley of Tufts Col lege; Manager Daniel Bloomfield of the Boston Chamber of Commerce Retail Trade board; Secretary J. Arthur Moriarty of the Boston Typographical Union; New England Wage & Hour Administrator Thomas H. Eliot. Medical directors (headed by Dr. Cabot) do not belong to Health Service, but are banded into a brother corporation called Medical and Surgical Associates. This group will ex amine and appoint about 100 doctors to serve subscribers; Health Service, Inc. will pay them...
With him on his trip Jim Farley took along his personal and party publicist, Eddie Roddan, and anotherkey man in the national Democratic machine: Treasurer Oliver Adams Quayle Jr. Everywhere he saw and handshook all manner of men & women-railroad workers, col- lege boys, lady Democrats, postal em-ployes-but especially Democratic county chairmen, the machine's roller bearings. He made safe, resounding speeches on salutary topics...
...other obvious notable was Dr.Charles Galton Darwin, mathematician and scientific philosopher of Christ's Col lege, Cambridge, grandson of Charles Dar win, proponent of evolution by natural selection. As president of the section on mathematical and physical sciences, Dr.Darwin delivered a neat talk on logic in science, in which he told a story from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. When Stooge Watson complimented Detective Holmes for a shrewd guess, Holmes pro tested: "No, no, I never guess. It is a shocking habit, destructive of the logical faculty. ... I could only say what was the balance of probability." Detective...
...centenary as an educational development, the municipal university has yet to take firm root in the U. S. Of the nine such universities extant, four were private schools taken over when they succumbed to financial difficulties. The Col lege of Charleston (S. C.), founded in 1770 and under city control since 1837, is in point of age Louisville's chief rival. The University of Akron (1913) was once a Universalist college. The Municipal Uni versity of Omaha (1931) was founded as a non-sectarian institution by Rev. Daniel Jenkins, a Presbyterian minister, for Omahans who did not want...
Last January banjo-eyed Funnyman Eddie Cantor (ne Izzy Iskovitch) paused in his Pebeco Toothpaste broadcast. For the best essay on How Can America Stay Out of War? he would give a $5,000 col lege scholarship. Rarely had a radio bene faction been launched under happier au spices. The title was picked by onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker...