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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordered the Chief of Police "to confer with the proper authorities at the various local institutions attended by students operating out-of-state cars with a view to having them cooperate with the local police department in an effort to list such automobiles with their owners, operators, registration and length of time they expect to be in the city...
...continent upon the first major trial-balloon ascension of the White House Janizariat, which seeks data on 1940. Ostensibly out to whoop up the New Deal for the Congressional elections and attend a few ceremonies at which his presence was appropriate, Mr. Ickes went armed with eight full-length addresses to deliver in twelve days (besides informal talks and short speeches...
...solution bathed the nerve trunks of organs involved in childbirth and effectively killed pain. The efficiency of motor nerves which aid in propelling a child out of the birth canal was not impaired. Chief merit of the new drugs is that each has a different length of action, and doctors predicting the length of labor can inject a drug with sufficiently lasting effects...
Five of a Kind (Twentieth Century-Fox) indicates that something drastic will have to be done about the Dionne Quintuplets. In this, their third full-length screen appearance, they give no impression of taking their profession seriously. In the first place, none of the quintuplets has bothered to learn English. In the second place, what they speak, although it sounds vaguely like French, is really some sort of squirrel talk, whose complete unintelligibility to outsiders appears to delight rather than distress the Dionnes...
...sparsely attended H. S. U. meeting in Leverett House last night, a draft of new Student Union constitution was discussed at some length prior to submission to the general membership for ratification...