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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anticipate that this will become a school to train leaders and, though them, the people at large how to translate democratic ideal of administration into living realities," declared Lucius N. Littauer '78 of New York City, founder at the "Silver Trowel" exercise last...
Born Murray Teichman 43 years ago in Manhattan, Arthur Murray had some dancing experience before he took a business course at Georgia School of Technology. He made money teaching dancing in Asheville, N. C. and Atlanta before he left college in 1921. He set up in Manhattan in 1923, now has eight floors on East 43rd Street and grosses $500,000 a year. Typical Murray pupil is a businessman over 40 who pays $100 for 20 lessons. With 260 people on his $8,000-a-week payroll, Arthur Murray prefers Southern girls as teachers (he finds them forceful but gracious...
...Josephs in Sullivan County, N. Y. is a bosky, 2,000-acre camp, one of the largest of its kind in the U. S., where 1,200 poor Roman Catholic boys and girls from the New York Archdiocese spend their summers, where Dominican nuns study and where Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, well-beloved Archbishop of New York, takes his summer ease. George MacDonald, rich Catholic layman, papal marquis, and friend of the Cardinal, gave St. Josephs a $5.000 pavilion on Lake St. Dominic. In that pavilion last week, Marquis MacDonald, Cardinal Hayes, three bishops, many a monsignor, priest...
...narrow streamer of the St. Lawrence known as the International Rift, through which runs the U. S.-Canada boundary line. Each with his right hand clutching one grip of an enormous pair of shears, they snipped a gaily fluttering ribbon. The first Thousand Islands International Bridge, from Collins Landing, N. Y. to Ivy Lea, Ont., was officially open...
...with automobile tolls of $1.25. A series of five two-lane bridges connected by a viaduct and about five miles of highway, it traverses four islands, brings 200 others into view, will be cheaper by more than half, quicker by many times than the ride on the nearby Clayton (N. Y.)-Gananoque ferry...