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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Selection will be by photographs, filed at the various local agencies. Any correspondence relating to the Bureau, including applications for charter memberships carrying special privileges should be addressed to the Harvard Dating Bureau, Box P. CRIMSON Building...
Same day 130 Chinese were executed in a village half way between Peiping and Tientsin and officials began quarreling over why they were executed. Some said the 130 had been narcotic addicts, others that they had "offended the local authorities by thieving and in various ways," but anyhow they were shot down by a Chinese firing squad...
...theatre stage. Since Bank Nights started in 1931, Inventor Yaeger's enterprise has grown from a two-room office to a Denver building and a chain of theatres. Perpetually under fire from state and municipal authorities who hope to find some way in which to bring it under local lottery laws, Bank Night last week experienced the worst storm of its stormy history in Chicago...
...Local opinion of him became practically unanimous when hot-tempered Jean, who had no love for the canting Covenanters and was much drawn to Clavers' dark good looks, saw him superintending a bloody flogging. That night, when they met at a ball, she publicly insulted him. 'But it was all a terrible mistake. The man she had seen flogged was one of Clavers' own brutal troopers who had been caught torturing Jean's old nurse. In a few hours Jean learned the rights of it, apologized to Clavers as publicly as she had insulted...
...Canadian North-west was very limited. She was a member of the Strollers at Ohio State, circulation manager of the Ohio Stater, contributor to the Lantern, and an athlete in women's intramurals. John Weigel was a classmate, working his way through Ohio State as an announcer at the local radio station. They shared in common an enthusiasm for Ohio State's football team of that year. Now Joan is the heroine of "Renfrew of the Mounted" on a national radio hookup and is rescued over and over again. John Weigel has pushed his way forward...