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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tenino, Wash., Mark O'Neil went fishing, caught one trout, dragged up one slot machine, in which he dropped a nickel. The machine did not work...
...efforts of Chairman Legge, his Farm Board and its network of cooperatives could not hold up wheat prices. The July figure in Chicago slumped to $1 per bu.-7? below last year's mark. Traders in the pit spoke of a "panicky feeling." Growers out in the country wondered when, if ever, the Farm Board would get them better prices. Meanwhile the National Grain Corp. braced itself to handle 300 million bushels of wheat (about one-third of the crop total) through its elevators and co-operative agencies. From Hall-Baker Co. in Kansas City it hired Paul Bartlett...
...raised by the class of 1930, is the lowest donated in recent years. Last year's graduating class gave $1,142 with a total of 167 contributors. In the preceding year, $849 was gathered from 144 gifts, while in 1927, the pool almost reached the $2000 mark when 267 members of the class gave $1,965.85. Although gifts will be solicited twice a year until the class' twenty-fifth reunion, money for the fund will be received at any time by the Class Agent...
This study, then, lacks that breadth and temperance which made Willard Huntington Wright's "The Man of Promise" worth a second printing. It is too hysterical for repetition. Sincerity is the only positive element which stands forth as a distinctive mark of the author. The adventures of Lewis are true to form, the duality of imagination and action is developed along the usual lines. The title, and the use of the obelisk as a symbol, have only a tenuous bond with the solid flesh of the story. The sincerity of the narration and the freedom from sophisticated or psychological patter...
...romance and even sentimentality about Class Day that is as real as the coldest facts. The Tree Oration with its beginning back in the glowing days of the "Rebelliad" is a vital part of the living Harvard tradition. The solemn planting of the ivy is the final mark of the Class of 1930 as it was of the classes of centuries before. About it all there is the mellow color that comes from the enriching touch...