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...Army's ranking engineer, Major General Edward Murphy Markham, the chairman cf the American Red Cross. Dr. Gary T. Grayson, and many another. Together they mapped and planned how to care for a million suffering citizens, how to mitigate $400,000,000 worth of property damage in Mid-U. S., how to save other millions in humanity and property from damage (see p. 17). The President sent Harry Hopkins and a group of experts out to reconnoitre the wake of the retreating flood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt Week: Feb. 8, 1937 | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...WISE CHILD?Farcical mid-U. S. love affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Mar. 31, 1930 | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

Wisconsin, which won the mid-U. S. contest two weeks ago (TiME, March 9). failed to warble as satisfactorily as some of the others. The judges (Ralph L. Baldwin, Arthur Bodansky, Kent Schindler) came to a quick conclusion that Yale had sung best, Princeton next, Missouri next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Yale WIns | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...group repeated the song; they were the glee-clubs of Armour, Beloit, Chicago, Grinnell, Illinois, Iowa, Knox, Lake Forest, Michigan, Millikin, Northwestern, Purdue, Wabash and Wisconsin colleges and universities. After every rendering of the ballad, judges made notes, announced at length that of all seats of learning in the mid-U. S., Wisconsin is sweetest of throat; Michigan is second, they said; Grinnell, third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Glee | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

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