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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First tobacco Duke to betray an interest in higher education was old Washington ("Wash") Duke who in 1891 gave $100,000 in cigaret stocks to little Trinity College in Durham, N. C., when that Methodist institution was crusading against the weed he sold. Since then "Wash" Duke's progeny have made Trinity into a fabulously rich educational duchy. Late Son James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, who was permitted to rename it Duke University for $17,000,000 in cash, also gave Duke an eventual 32% of the income from his Duke Endowment, whose $53,000,000 portfolio holds not only...
...blast a reservoir on his farm at Stanfordville, N. Y., Dr. Edgar Ernst needed 50 Ib. of dynamite, ordered it sent by freight from the du Pont factory in Wilmington, Del. Last week, in a special car pulled by a special engine. Dr. Ernst's dynamite arrived. Confronted with the difficulty of transporting a package no bigger than a soap box which was nonetheless capable of blowing up a complete train, du Pont had hired a whole boxcar, nailed the crate to the floor in the middle, sealed the doors, plastered the outside with placards screaming EXPLOSIVES...
...rainy midnight last week the great German dirigible Hindenburg rose from her moorings at Lakehurst, N. J., for her tenth,and final 1936 crossing of the Atlantic eastward. Just before she soared away her massive designer, Dr. Hugo Eckener, celebrated a summer of perfect performance with a bit of perfect publicity. On an invitation cruise over six Eastern States he carried 84 potent U. S. industrialists, Government officials and financiers, as a demonstration of lighter-than-air transport to those best able to do something about...
...Chrysler, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Walter C. Teagle. Among those who could and did were Cord Corp.'s President Lucius B. Manning, TWA's President Jack Frye, De Soto Motor's President Byron C. Foy, Goodyear Tire & Rubber's President Paul W. Litchfeld, President Thomas N. McCarter of Public Service of New Jersey, Eastern Air Lines' General Manager Edward V. Rickenbacker, Director of Air Commerce Eugene L. Vidal, his assistant Col. J. Carroll Cone, Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. N., Pan American Airways' Juan Trippe, Admiral William H. Standley...
...existence for four years, and holding monthly meetings, the Club is the campus organization for Unitarians, Univerealists, and liberals unaffliated with other groups. In addition to Dr. Eliot, speakers for this year will include Arthur N. Holcombe '08, professor of Government, and Julius S. Bixler, Bussey Professor of Theology...