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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debating Council announces that a long list of debates has been scheduled for this coming season and will be assigned to the 44 members of its squad at a meeting held on Thursday, February 17. All men who have qualified for the squad in previous trials, but have not yet had an opportunity to represent the council in a debate will be given that opportunity if they are present at this meeting. New officers for the Council will also be elected Thursday night...
...apears that when he came to Harvard from the middle west, he was required to take the Massachusetts literacy test. "Occupation," asked the examiner, curtly. "Professor at Harvard," came the reply. "Well then, can you read that?," he sneered, holding up a card on which was printed a list of simple words...
...pretentious crop, it found unpretentious Night Must Fall the best. Of 20 films mentioned, ten were foreign-made. Leading the performers was French Harry Bauer, in the Prague-made The Golem; high up was Soviet Nikolai Cherkassov (Baltic Deputy). Hollywood's 14-year-old Jackie Cooper made the list; the industry's 1937 darling, Mr. Paul Muni...
...must not "invest" with cash, must never visit the promoter's premises. To circumvent England's Betting & Lotteries Act, all transactions are on credit, cash is sent the following week. If an investor fails to follow up with cash, he is promptly put on the Confidential Black List which all promoters keep in common. One establishment, Littlewood's of Liverpool, has received so many pennies and pounds that it has grown from a backroom office to four huge buildings with 5,000 employes...
...rolls, declare property valued at $10 or more. This presented a problem to the city's low-paid teachers, who own little besides personal possessions. The resourceful teachers solved the problem, however, by hastening to declare the personal property that tax-dodging citizens ordinarily do not list. Blonde, comely Lee Ray Chandler listed her cello. Janitor C. C. Woodward declared his cow. Teacher H. P. Kuntz admitted his rifle. Others listed watches, rings, pins...