Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Crooner Rudy Vallée, interrupted by stage and radio concerts, never managed to finish the course he enrolled in four years ago at Boston's Suffolk School of Law, Suffolk last week made Crooner Vallée an honorary Master of Arts at a special presentation. Beamed Suffolk's Dean Gleason Archer: "Rudy will finish his course sometime and go into politics." Next year, elaborated Dean Archer, Crooner Vallée would not only continue his studies but teach radio showmanship, head a new department of radio broadcasting...
Some 50 miles off the coast of French Guiana one day last week the steamer Lorraine Cross met a tiny, two-masted tub lolloping along under sail with a distress signal flying. When the master of the Lorraine Cross asked what was wrong, the four men on the little tub's deck shouted back that she was the Margaret Harold bound from London to Trinidad via Gibraltar, that they were completely out of food and fuel. The Lorraine Cross's captain observed that the ship's name had been painted out. He asked to see her papers...
...which Major Edward Bowes was part owner. In 1925, Rothafel left the Capitol to direct the new, plush-lined Roxy Theatre, took his "Gang" idea with him. The Capitol's program continued as "Major Bowes's Capitol Theatre Family," with Bowes acting as an unctuously friendly master of ceremonies in the Roxy manner. In 1934, a veteran at the microphone, Major Bowes began an "Amateur Hour" over New York's small Station WHN. Last year, after Roxy had failed on a spectacular scale to make a go of Radio City's gigantic Music Hall, Major Bowes...
...School gave 397 Bachelors of Law a degree, (42 with honors), 15 degrees of Master of Law, and 3 of Doctor of the Science of Jurisprudence. From across the river came 241 embryo business men to receive degrees. (41 with distinction), while two men became Doctors of Commercial Science. The Medical School graduated 183 and other departments including Dentistry, Forestry, Architecture, Public Health, Divinity, and Education conferred a total of 99 academic titles...
WILLIAM EDWIN HALL: MASTER OF ARTS, of New York City, lawyer and corporation official. "A citizen who has enriched his country by ardently promoting a better life for the underprivileged...