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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the aid of Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, Student Council representative for Freshman affairs and himself an ex-Union Committee President, and of Kendrick N. Marshall '21, secretary of the Union and instructor in Government, the 1943 Union Committee will manage informal class dances, sponor talks, stage course reviews before examinations. It also appoints the committees which stage the Yardlings' two big blowouts; the Smoker, annual class stag party, and the Jubilee...
Month ago, in mid-July, the stock-market started to go through the roof. Topped off by four million-share days, the Dow-Jones average hopped ten points (to 144.71) from July n to July 21. It seemed almost within reach of its 1939 high (154-85) and its 1938 high (158.41). Last week stock which was sold at the July peak could be bought back for ten points less. Those who profited by this turn of events were chiefly professional traders. SEC has since reported that at the peak, in the last half of July, while the public...
Three years ago a new character appeared in the milkshed. Thin-faced, spectacled Archie Wright, onetime representative of the hard-boiled National Maritime Union of the C. I. O., bought a dairy farm near Ogdensburg, N. Y. Between seeing that his cows were milked, he set out to help form the Dairy Farmers' Union. Last year he became its president...
...radio treaty. In 1927, at the International Radio Convention in Washington, they were standardized, with various initial letters and combinations assigned to various nations. These were most recently brought up to date by the Cairo conference last year. Assigned to the U. S. are initial letters W, K and N (for naval communications). Germany has the letter D (for Deutschland), France F, Great Britain G, Italy I, Russia R and U, Japan J, China the letters XGA through XUZ. Mexico has XAA through XFZ. Hungary has HAA through HAZ, including a station...
...warm spring day in 1820 a tall, towheaded, 14-year-old farm boy named Joseph Smith stumbled into his parents' log cabin at Palmyra, N. Y., looking as though he had seen a ghost. He had just talked with God in an oak grove. "And it came to pass," reported ragged Joe, "that the Son spake unto me, saying, 'verily, verily, I say unto you, my servant Joseph, that a new church will be established in these latter days and you will be my prophet...