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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children's cut-out called The World Museum, a serialization of Laurence Greene's historical scrapbook of U. S. Journalism, America Goes to Press (TIME, March 30). Publisher Smart and Editor Denby say they will be in the black if they can sell the Esquire feature list to 35 fair-sized papers. With 100 customers, they say they will see big money...
...List. President Fleming had no monopoly on good temper. Off the convention floor the delegates were cheered by a round of festivities including two boat rides around San Francisco Bay, a grand banquet and ball at the Palace Hotel, a golf tournament at the Olympic Club's Lakeside course. Amadeo Giannini's Bank of America, biggest U. S. bank west of Manhattan, outdid itself in the matter of hospitality. To each of the bankers' ladies on the night of the formal ball, Bank of America sent a corsage of two orchids. To each of the bankers...
...consumers." The evidence: 34% of the consumers thought they were better treated by shopkeepers than by bankers, 57% believed bankers were not doing their bit in Recovery, and 42% of the bankers were apparently aware of this attitude. Furthermore, while Franklin D. Roosevelt led all the rest on a list of men whose views on finance met with public approval, no banker showed up in the list until it had passed down through Ogden Mills, Senator Glass, Senator Borah, Alf Landon, Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, William L. Lemke, Dr. Townsend, Father Coughlin, Norman Thomas...
Active head of M.I.T. is Merrill Griswold, a 50-year-old Boston lawyer who married a Lowell. There are two other trustees and a five-man advisory board, heavily Harvard, predominantly Bostonian. Leading the board's list is Charles Francis Adams, great-great-great-grandson of the second President of the U. S.. Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Navy and reputedly the richest member of his ancient family. Another is Roger Amory. the philosophical president of Consolidated Investment Trust. He lists his hobbies as books, walks and lying in the sun. wrote for his 25th Harvard...
...response to queries by the "Yale News" the Dean's office released a list of 33 men, whom the Executive Committee of the Faculty have voted to remove as a result of makeup exams taken last week...