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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many of the colleges set up emergency first-aid units for treatment of wounded, not all of whom were soldiers mangled in action. Excerpt from a letter written by Dr. Robert Wilson at University Hospital, Nanking: "We are getting a large number of women from 16 to 30, most of them nice looking girls, who are ridden with venereal disease from frequent raping...
...facts from the standpoint of who, what, when and where. 2) Arrive at an intelligent definition of the real problem and do not jump from an opinion to a conclusion without reasoning. 3) Consider carefully all possible solutions of the problem. 4) Accept the solution which has the largest number of advantages and the fewest disadvantages...
...church altar between bride and bridegroom; the throwing of confetti or rice (an ancient fertility symbol) at the church door. Banned was secular and operatic music such as the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches, Oh, Promise Me, At Dawning etc. Instead, Dr. Piepkorn recommended Bach and a number of lesser church composers. And he directed that wedding rehearsals be brief, dignified non-conversational. Apparently shocked at newspaper accounts of the casual gaiety of the rehearsal of the John Roosevelt-Anne Clark wedding last month, Dr. Piepkorn said: "They must have had a merry time of it. ... A family as prominent...
...likely to be as much social as artistic events, with tea served on the terrace, concerts played in an adjoining room, and summer visitors exchanging greetings in the gallery. Last week summer shows, in full swing from Southhampton, L. I. to Ogunquit, Me., surprised critics with their variety, the number of first-rate artists exhibiting, the high level of the work exhibited...
...Utility Act of 1935 ("death sentence"). Promulgated by SEC was the new rule exempting from all provisions of this law utility holding companies and subsidiaries whose entire system gross revenues derived from the utility business did not exceed $150,000 in the last fiscal year. Utility men estimated the number of such companies at about...