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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Syracuse, N...
...stranger to Fordham, he taught there as a scholastic, directed student dramatics, organized a play shop. After his ordination he studied educational methods at the Sorbonne, Oxford, Cambridge, Perugia, Louvain. In 1930 the Jesuit Father General sent him to reopen St. Peter's College in Jersey City, N. J., closed since the War. For his first 80 students, Father Gannon rented four offices from the Chamber of Commerce, an adjoining kitchen for a chemistry laboratory. Last fortnight St. Peter's, humming with an enrollment of 400, dedicated its first collegiate building, Gannon Hall...
...infant to Manhattan, followed his father into the catering trade, was manager for 22 years of a newshawks' and politicians' restaurant in Manhattan's Chambers Street. Pink & white, still professionally appreciative of good cooking, Artist Young has his studio in the basement of his Weehawken Heights, N. J. home, gets from $5 to $48 for his etchings. For the snowscapes for which he has developed such a sensitivity, Etcher Young bundles up in woolens, leather boots, skating cap, takes along an umbrella to protect his sketching block, placidly stands in snowbanks until he is satisfied with...
There are about 400,000 graduate nurses in the U. S., more than can find regular, paying work. "In spite of an oversupply, hospitals cannot find enough graduate nurses to staff their wards," observed Secretary Claribel Wheeler of the N. L, of N. E. ". . . On the other hand, small hospitals in scattered regions require such long hours for such low salary, that competent women are reluctant to take up staff positions there. Unless we can solve this problem, the small hospitals threaten to hire practical nurses...
...orchestra, the Essex County Symphony, completed its second week of concerts under Erno Rapée in a stadium near Newark, N. J. Audiences discovered that no longer need they suffer from New Jersey's mosquitoes, thanks to a new larvicide with which the air was sprayed...