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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when a delegation of 25 young Chicago business and professional men went to her with what they convinced her was a feasible plan for summer music. She agreed to let them have her Park for concerts by the Chicago Symphony, provided they would permit her to pass upon the list of conductors. With Banker Willoughby George Walling as chairman, the group quickly raised $30,000 in guarantees. Since the Chicago Symphony was also scheduled for free concerts in Grant Park, sponsored by the City and the local Federation of Musicians, the Ravinia organizers had to be content with four concerts...
...home runs in one inning for a total of eight bases. In the Associated Press resumes of each day's outstanding baseball hero, Rookie Di Maggio has appeared seven times during the past month. His closest rival is Dizzy Dean, who has appeared four times. In any list of reasons why the Yankees were leading the league by ten games, Yankee Di Maggio would appear at the top. On July 4 he climaxed his first half season in big-league baseball by making his eleventh home run, while the Yankees were beating the Senators in a doubleheader...
...longest encyclical he has ever addressed primarily to the archbishops and bishops of the U. S., Pope Pius XI roundly flayed the U. S. motion picture industry, congratulated the Legion of Decency on improving it slightly and advocated reviewing boards in every country in the world to list the cinemas fit for Roman Catholic consumption...
...likely to get an honorary degree? To cast some light on this vexing academic question Datus C. Smith Jr., able young editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, last week compiled for Forum & Century a list of U. S. kudos champions and a list of outstanding U. S. citizens as yet unhonored. Then he invited readers to draw their own conclusions. Champions were Nicholas Murray Butler (34), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (28), Herbert Hoover (27), the New York Times's speechmaker, John Huston Finley (27). Dorothy Dix is an honorary Doctor of Letters and Marion Sayle...
...those who like to draw spiderweb charts in support of the theory that U. S. industry is banker-dominated, a possible starting point might be No. 2 Wall Street, home of Manhattan's First National, the "Baker Bank." A list of the late, famed George Fisher Baker's directorships included a choice slice of U. S. industry. Since the old banker died in 1931 at the age of 91 the Baker seats have been filled by George Fisher Baker Jr., now 58. As tight-lipped as his father, Banker Baker has offered no explanation for his recent resignations...