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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House's week was enlivened by a fight in the California delegation. Democrat Alfred J. Elliott received by mistake a check for $100 made out to Republican Bertrand W. ("Bud") Gearhart by a Mrs. Gertrude Achilles of Morgan Hill, Calif., urging passage of a bill to create John Muir-Kings Canyon National Park. Mr. Elliott had the check photostatted, sent it back to California for remailing, set the FBI to watch for its cashing, and told people to watch him catch Bud Gearhart taking a bribe. When he got the check, Bud Gearhart returned it to Mrs. Achilles honestly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Undone | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Although five out of the nine encounters were exciting five game gruellers, most spectacular of all the matches was Kim Kanavarro's smashing victory over Yale's number one star M. Muir 15-11, 15-8, 15-0. In the last game Kanavarro literally smothered his opponent with a barrage of furious service aces. Equally impressive was the cool determination of Captain George B. Blake '39 as he fought to victory after it had eluded him by the closest of margins in the third and fourth games where Harding staged a valiant comeback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Subdues Yale Squash Team In Spectacular Victory in Hemenway | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Woodbridge Marshall, Altadena, California-John Muir Technical. High School, Pasadena, California...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 243 Freshmen From Everywhere Win Scholarships | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...themselves to Broadway dramatic critics whose comments might reduce their cinema earning power. Noteworthy cinemactors of this year's silo season are: Kitty Carlisle in her debut as a straight actress in French Without Tears (White Plains, N. Y.) ; Paulette Goddard in French Without Tears (Dennis, Mass.); Jean Muir in Much Ado About Nothing, High Tor (Schenectady and Suffern, N. Y.); Mary Brian in Honey (Dennis, Mass.) ; Douglass Montgomery in Berkeley Square (Cedarhurst, L. I.); Madge Evans in Stage Door (Suffern, N. Y.); Jane Wyatt (Coquette, Stage Door, Biography) and Elissa Landi (The Lady Has a Heart) at various...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Silo Stagers | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

John Dimeff, 16, of San Jose; Los Gatos Union High School. Woodbridge Marshall, 17, of Altadena; John Muir Technical High School, Pasadena...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 34 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

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