Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition already signed by 75 Freshmen was being circulated through the Yard last night calling for the abolition of the Freshman elections now scheduled to be next month...
When Bureau of Air Commerce experts convened to investigate Northwest Airlines' crash in which ten were killed near Bozeman, Mont, last month, they may well have had misgivings. For the apparent cause of the accident was major structural failure, a great rarity on airliners. And to the acute discomfiture of the investigating board, their own Bureau of Air Commerce had "rigidly tested" and approved the ship (a new Lockheed 14H which had flown only 190 hours) shortly before the crash...
...fleet for 300,000 shares of United stock. Sam Zemurray has been United's managing director in charge of operations since his 1932 coup. Last week he became head of the company in name as well as fact by succeeding President Francis R. Hart who died last month. Purely on a business basis, President Zemurray is supposed to have backed a couple of Central American revolutions. Elected last week to the new post of board chairman for United was camera-shy Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, onetime (1934-36) Undersecretary of the Treasury, a great-great-great-grandson of another colorful...
...Steel's little competitor, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Big, broad-shouldered and 24, Blaine Fairless went to Culver Military Academy, M. I. T. and Babson Institute, from which he graduated last spring. Liked by his fellow workers, he collects phonograph records, moves in a socialite young set. Month ago he and a dozen other gay blades ribbed Pittsburgh debutantes by holding a mock Bachelors' Cotillion at which the girls had to carry bouquets of vegetables...
...ivory.' Since Lardner's death nobody has carried on his work as laureate of this thick-skulled world; nobody has caught the tones of its odd, original speech, or the flavor of its half-ironic, half-fatuous humor. But with a collection of brief sketches published last month, a young Manhattan reporter looked like the most promising candidate so far for Lardner's vacant post. His stories showed much of Lardner's tormented sympathy for voluble boneheads, a good deal of his ability to write common speech without making it grotesque, but less of Lardner...