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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raymond S. Clark '36, chairman of the Senior nominating committee, last night, announced eight additional nominations by petition to the list of 46 men already up for election for the three positions of Permanent class Secretary, Permanent Class Committee, and Class Day Committee...
...Samuel S. McClure, Judge B. B. Lindsey, Governor Louis B. Hanna of North Dakota, many another headliner of that era. Also aboard was a husky youngster of 21 who was neither distinguished nor naïve. The name of Emil Hurja was on the Oscar II's passenger list because the University of Washington was sending this student abroad as its peace delegate. Last week Franklin D. Roosevelt's chances of being re-elected President of the U. S. next November would be considerably less than they are if it were not for the off-stage activities...
...these reckonings, as Mr. Hurja well knows, are as of February 1936, not as of November 1936. If he were frankly to summarize his opponents' chances, he would probably list the six New England states, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware as the most likely pickings for Republicans. Another group, including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, New York, West Virginia and Maryland, are open to fight. If the Republicans are to make any showing at all, these seven States must be carried. Thus Mr. Hurja might draw up a Republican table...
Unfortunately, by last week The Music Goes 'Round and Around had definitely ceased to be a hit. For four weeks it has failed to appear on Variety's list of the 25 tunes most played on the air. Sheet sales have dropped 95% since their peak in early January. To most radio addicts, overfamiliarity has made the song something in the nature of an auditory emetic. Consequently, the impressive sequence in which Farley & Riley, then a German comedian, then an operatic tenor, then the star of the picture and finally the whole audience in a theatre sing...
Chief concern among medical educators of late has been the rapid growth of specialization. As the result of statistics already on hand, the powers-that-be have decided, according to Columbia University's Medical Dean Willard Cole Rappleye, that "beginning in 1938 no physician will be listed as a specialist who does not possess a certificate from a board in his particular branch of practice." Consonant with that idea, the A. M. A. Journal last week published a list of reliable x-ray specialists. The list was surprising, for it contained only 1,274 names for the entire country...