Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month ago, the Harvard Student Peace Committee rejected proposals for a definite policy at the meeting along with its characterization as a "strike" in an effort to arouse impartially student interest in peace...
...clock in the Leverett House Common Room, the Bunnies' Glee Club under the baton of George W. Phillips '39 will present a joint spring concern with the Boston Junior League which is directed by Mrs. Herbert Harris. The concert will follow the House dinner for the month of April...
Most comforting of all to stockholders who had been reading the woeful financial pages lately, was the news that both NBC and CBS had a larger advertising revenue in March than either of them had ever had in one month before. NBC figures: $3,800,000; CBS: $3,000,000. Radio advertising is mostly contracted for in 13-week lumps, which protects the networks from any really precipitous fall in earnings. But not even the most melancholy stockholder, considering what has happened to advertising in most newspapers and magazines in the last six months, could refrain from concluding that...
...seemed a poor investment, New York added an amendment: Insurance companies could buy land if they immediately put up buildings on it, if all their real-estate holdings did not amount to more than 10% of their assets, if the rent they charged was not more than $9 a month a room. Other States followed. Because of the various State laws there is no generalizing about the life insurance business, but recent figures for 49 legal reserve life insurance companies with 92% of the total life insurance assets show $4,686,000,000 (19% of their assets) in mortgage loans...
...cigar-holder in mouth, yachting cap on head, Calvin Coolidge spent some of his happiest hours aboard her. Then Herbert Hoover ordered the Mayflower sold. Six times the Navy called for bids before a syndicate bought her fire damaged hulk, laid her up for seven years. Auctioned off this month at Wilmington, N. C. for $16,000, rumors of the Mayflower's reblossoming were thick around her wharf last week. But the 42-year-old beauty seemed doomed at last as final purchasers were announced, Virginia's Suffolk Scrap Iron & Metal...