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...gone. To be poor is to be happy. To be secure is to have everything. Wealth and position are not to be desired. Happiness is a more elusive thing and may be found right in anyone's modest cottage on the edge of Middletown. How deeply this Philosophy penetrates, how permanent it will be, I do not guess. It does seem to be, however, a dominant note today. TERTIUS...
President James" Lukens McConaughy of Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), expounded a "recovery code" for colleges to his students, with a six-day week and a minimum 40 hr. of work...
...because it was farther north, inside the Arctic Circle. He liked it so much that a year later he went back there to spend over a year. Arctic Village, May choice of the Literary Guild, is the fascinatingly factual record of his visit. Like Robert Lynd's famed Middletown (statistical study of Muncie. Ind.). Arctic Village's data cover every phase of human activity in the Koyukuk. neatly arranged under anthropological heads, backed up by tables of statistics, pointed by photographs that would do credit to Dr. Erich Salomon. Civilization in miniature, the Koyukuk's total population...
Married, Washington Dodge II, 24, business editor of TIME; and Helen Kent Hubbard, 22, of Middletown, Conn.; in Camden, Maine...
...Bank, which last week was forced to close. The suspension was Spokane's sixth since April 5, brought the total of tied-up deposits to $17,000,000. Receiverships. Two notable companies passed into the hands of receivers last week: Celotex Co. of Chicago and Russell Manufacturing Co. of Middletown. Celotex is a big maker of wallboard and similar products, using the stalks of sugar-cane for pulp. Its president is Bror Gustave Dahlberg. In early 1930 he sent each shareholder a personal telegram urging him not to "sacrifice" his holdings at the then current price ($50 a share). Russell...