Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Curtis is Vice President of the U. S. Harry King Curtis, his son, is a Chicago lawyer. Last week Assistant State's Attorney Richard Jackson at Chicago began to investigate charges that Son Curtis had taken some $10,000 in "fees" from Chicago builders on promises to obtain for them federal construction contracts, presumably through his father's influence in Washington...
...said that the University keeps the blue books as records. No adequate explanation of this custom has ever been forwarded. Concentration, distribution, divisionals are magic words which open up a bulging treasure house of scholastic complications. It would be interesting to obtain the "Open Sesame" to the warehouse where the blue books are stored. If the college authorities find this year that all the available space in this mythological spot is filled to repletion it would be a simple matter to send out a short announcement as to where the blue books for each course may be secured...
Some 30 manuscripts reviewing "The Case of Sergeant Grischa" were submitted to the judges, the Dramatic Critics of the CRIMSON and of the Daily. The winners, whose reviews appear on page four of this issue, may obtain their prizes by calling at the University Theatre today after 2 o'clock...
...this spring died a city death of pneumonia (TIME, April 21), Princess Spotted Elk of the Penobscots, and young Chief Long Lance of the Blackfoot tribe, author, boxer, wrestler and onetime West Pointer, to play the leads. Burden and Chanler spent ten months on wilderness location to obtain a realism so striking that Paramount, which released The Silent Enemy last week, complained: "People will never believe it." Accordingly, a six-hour epic has been cut to 90 minutes. But it is still epic...
...raced against Harvard two weeks ago, showed so much power in their final half-mile that it is not inconceivable that they might have beaten Navy, had they kept to their course. After passing the Harvard bridge, the Tech shell headed in for the wall, possibly in order to obtain better water, and came the last third of the course near the Esplanade wall. By this maneuver they apparently lost distance, although they were so far in, and Navy was so far out on the surface of the Basin, that it was hard to judge...