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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lieutenant Charles Henry Fiske, 3d, Scholarship for a year of study at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, and also the Lieutenant Charles Henry Fiske, 3d, Fund for Travel or Study in France, have been awarded to Edwin C. Hoyt of Brentwood, Long Island, N. Y., who will graduate cum laude in History...
...stately ritual, santified by precedents of nearly three centuries, the University's two hundred eighty-seventh Commencement tomorrow will solemnize the awarding of degrees to approximately 2,200 students 'n the College and eleven Graduate Schools. Honorary titles, in recognition of distinguished service to the University or to the Community will be conferred by President Conant at the morning exercises...
...more efficient than manual operation of linotypes. Stories are accumulated either on the Semagraph code copy or on the Teletypesetter tape. These stories are then fed to the linotypes which turn out type faster and more steadily than a man can produce it. In the offices of the Newburgh, N. Y. Newburgh News, Teletype-setters have been in use to obtain greater volume of production from the linotypes for five years...
...Monday morning ten years ago, John R. White, mechanical superintendent of the Charlotte, N. C. Observer, marched into the office of Publisher Curtis Boyd Johnson. He announced that one of his linotype operators, 36-year-old Buford Leonard Green, had a mechanized linotype invention that worked. Three months later, convinced that Green had something worth backing, Publisher Johnson entered a partnership with...
...omnibus volume, illustrated with 14 romantic paintings by N. C. Wyeth, part real-estate ad, part history, part guide book, all of it unadulterated Mainiac bragging, Trending Into Maine aims belligerently at these main points: 1) that "there are no better people anywhere in the world" than State-of-Mainers, 2) that writers who call Maine natives "dour, sour, cautious, calculating yokels," are dirty liars, and 3) that Maine voters are still the true defenders of liberty, and to hell with Roosevelt...