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When Philadelphia burgeoned into a metropolis, Girard's endowment, shrewdly invested in downtown real estate and Schuylkill County coal leases, rocketed. The 104-year-old Girard endowment now totals $88,844,000. Only Harvard and Yale are richer than this charity elementary and high school. Sprouted from its wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College for Orphans | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

At Loew's State this week is a well rounded program featuring a satirical romance of Clarence Buddington Kelland called "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," with an S.S. Van Dine thriller filling out the bill. In the first, a gem of pure wit in Kelland's best Satevepost style, Mr...

Author: By J. E. A., | Title: AT LOEW'S STATE AND ORPHEUM | 4/11/1936 | See Source »

Socialist Start. U. S. Socialism is a German importation, brought by the political exiles of 1848 who started Milwaukee on its way to becoming a German metropolis. Even there Socialism might have remained no more than heady beer-table talk if it had not been for two facts. One was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: Marxist Mayor | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Joining with 75 members of the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Crimson singers will give their biggest concert of the trip Sunday evening at 8.00 o'clock in New York's Town Hall, center of musical interest in the metropolis. "The Peaceable Kingdom", by Randall Thompson '20, which had its world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB WILL TOUR DURING THE VACATION | 3/25/1936 | See Source »

The young King, whose father & mother always traveled by special train, had a single royal car hitched to the regular London-Glasgow express one night last week and sped north to the metropolis which is fullest of British Communists. Canny fellows, many of these Scotsmen are like Japanese Communists in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Teddy, Queen Mary & Buick | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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