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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Midwest Young Republicans, convening at Grand Forks, N. Dak., called for Governor Harold E. Stassen, 31, of Minnesota as Keynoter of the 1940 Republican National Convention...
...shows that on Nov. 11, 1921 playing with Dewitt Clinton Jones, Charles Wreaks and Randolph Harrison on the Suburban Club links in Elizabeth, N. J. I made a hole in one. It was my 23,990th hole in match play. Does anyone else know how many holes they had played before having this stroke of luck? That is what it is! Out of the millions of players very few expert amateurs or professionals have had it, proving that skill in the game has nothing to do with it. It also shows I have played 52 courses...
...Among the paupers in Westchester County Home near Elmsford, N. Y. were Frederick Rupt, 75, and John Doyle, 70. From their tiny allowances they saved money for a spree, one night last week walked into an Elmsford tavern, split a dozen cans of beer. Near 1 a.m. they were rolling homeward, Frederick Rupt favoring his wooden right leg. They fell afighting and when Frederick Rupt clumped away, John Doyle was lying by the road. Somebody's fist, said a doctor, had fractured his skull, killed him. Frederick Rupt was jailed for manslaughter...
...independence in French-mandated Syria and British-mandated Palestine. Il Duce proclaimed himself "Protector of Islam" two years ago, but last spring he nevertheless invaded Albania, a predominantly Moslem country. In Germany hand-picked Arabs are invited as honor guests to the Nazi Party's annual Congress at Nürnberg, where they usually hear Nazi orators bait the Jews. Both Nazi and Fascist newspapers, moreover, rarely miss a chance to fight the battle of the Arab in Palestine and Syria. Last week they found some choice items to report...
Oldest U. S. engineering school is Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N. Y., founded in 1824 by Dutch Patroon Stephen Van Rensselaer. Rensselaer, self-styled "birthplace of technology," is fanatically devoted to "practical" learning. Its students (now numbering 1,500) go to their first classes at 8 a.m., rarely knock off before 4:30 p.m. They are too busy for drinking, dancing, big-time athletics or campus chitchat (only one-third live in dormitories). Offering no snap courses, Rensselaer strips down even English and Philosophy to their utilitarian bones. English is studied by Rensselaer men primarily as a tool...