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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carried on under the supervision of Captain Lawrence B. Bixby, F.A., of the Department of Military Science and Tactics. The Team Captain, Phillip M. Andress '37, was elected at the close of the season last year. Andress, in addition to holding the high average for the team in match firing during the season of 1934-35, has a great deal of enthusiasm for the work of the club, and it is expected that the team will exceed its good record of last year...
...about three times as high, but it doesn't look it." And when President Harmodio Arias, whom President Roosevelt had just dubbed "the Canal Zone's best neighbor," lit the cigarets of Mr. Roosevelt and Canal Zone Governor Schley, then his own on the same match, the U. S. President chuckled: "It's obvious that you're not an Irishman...
Such was the climax of the most exciting convention battle the A. F. of L. ever saw. Year after year a stand-up match had been predicted between progressive John L. Lewis and the conservative boss rule of placid President William Green and his omnipotent majority on the executive council. This year at last both factions stepped openly into the ring for the first time. Of the five rounds fought, John L. Lewis won two, lost two, tied one. This record, however, did not indicate the full extent to which the contest had increased Miner Lewis' stature...
...that Mr. Rose now needed was someone to put up another $125,000 to match his. This he got through Pioneer Pictures from its chief, John Hay Whitney, generous angel of the amusement industry. Last week Mr. Whitney and his aristocratic wife, clad mostly in black sequins and carrying a lap dog, were having the time of their lives shuttling between the three widely separated places where Jumbo was taking final form...
John Harvard, M. A. Cambridge dying in 1636 gave his name to the new institution along with a very modest legacy--L400 to match the investment of the General Court and his entire library of 300 volumes. The endowment was evidently appreciated more than some of the stupendous sums sunk in later institutions (Rockefeller gave millions to the University of Chicago, but it is still called Chicago...