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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jameson (A); Berizzi, Walker, Waldron (H); 100-yard backstroke: Fisher, Dorr (A); Cummin, Tregaskis, Kennedy (H); 220-yard free-style: Dillingham, Hewitt (A); Coleman, Murphy (H); Medley, 150-yard: Fisher, Jameson, Howe (A); Cummin, Berizzi, Benedict (H); Relay: Howe, Fallon, Wyman, Scott (A); Barker, Griffin, Kendall, Hutter (H); Dive: Merriam (A) and Dana for (A) Greenhood, Forbush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TANKMEN EXPECTED TO SINK ALUMNI TONIGHT | 12/16/1937 | See Source »

...boots and plumed helmets, Elaine Walker, President of Culver City's chamber of commerce, paraded down Hollywood Boulevard to Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Stepping between crowd-banks to the theatre entrance, he was greeted by Hollywood's Olesen and California's burbling Governor Frank F. Merriam, ensconced behind a large box of fresh-mixed concrete. Announcing that Culver City no longer coveted her neighbor's name, President Walker with a splendid gesture passed over to the Hollywood camp a box inscribed, "Culver City presents to Hollywood the Culver City-made Selznick International Picture, The Prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Hatchet | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...often politics not Law decides whether a Governor extradites a man wanted for trial in another State. Last week Law asserted its rights in two distant States. In California, Attorney General Ulysses Sigel Webb ruled Governor Frank F. Merriam had no option, must surrender La Verne Moore, fabled super-golfing mystery man known for seven years as John Montague, to New York State to stand trial for alleged participation in a roadhouse robbery in 1930. This despite appeals for Montague by Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, George Von Elm, et al. Promptly John Montague's attorneys flew their appeals East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Missing Men | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...allotted $800,000 from the Emergency Relief Act appropriations of 1935. Professor Ogburn's subcommittee was told off to appraise current technological trends and their probable impact on society. This group included President Frank Rattray Lillie of the National Academy of Sciences, President John Campbell Merriam of the Carnegie Institution, President Edward Charles Elliott of Purdue University, a handful of economists, educators and one mathematician. The subcommittee admitted that "invention is a great disturber," but also agreed with the defenders of Science that it creates new industries, new reservoirs of employment. Professor Ogburn suggested that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whither Technology | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...second will depend on whether or not he avoids being extradited to New York. Day after his arrest last week, Montague was out on $10,000 bail, with Cinemactors Hardy, Crosby and Guy Kibbee named as references on his bond. His attorney, Jerry Giesler, asked Governor Frank F. Merriam for a hearing which was scheduled for July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mysterious Montague (Concl.) | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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