Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should Women Pay Alimony (Sat. 9:30 p.m., NBC-Red) debated by N. Y. Assemblyman William T. Middleton, Oxford Debater Maurice C. Dreicer, Novelist Fannie Hurst for the affirmative; N. Y. Executive Assistant Secretary of State Doris I. Byrne, N. Y. State Senator Leon Fischel for the negative...
...that England is slipping steadily into a business recession, are Merchant Selfridge's reasons for John Thrifty. He operated a 3d. & 6d. chain by that name for several years but abandoned it in 1930. Last week, John Thrifty returned to life in a maroon and cream shop on Oxford Street. Little Mr. Selfridge (5 ft. 5½ in.) will keep an eye on it from his mahogany desk in his big store across the street...
...extensive preparations being made for air attacks on London, expected to be a main objective of enemy bombers. Trenches to provide shelter for 1,500,000 people will be dug in London's parks, declared Sir Samuel, and a ring of hospital tents set up outside the city. Oxford and Cambridge universities will be turned into clearing stations for casualties. Some 30,000,000 sandbags, ready to be filled, have been stacked away in warehouses and 275,000,000 more are in production. Railways operating out of London have worked out a plan to move almost half of Greater...
...Oxford, England, nervous, bull-necked Viscount Nuffield, 60, Great Britain's No. 1 motor tycoon and Oxford University's No. 1 donor, was working overtime, when police arrested a man who they charged had come to his office to kidnap him. When Nuffield heard what happened, he ran to tell someone the news, burst in on some employes practicing for a band concert, cried: "Well, boys, what do you think of it? Two men have just tried to kidnap...
...Alexander 1G, Milton Crane, Columbia University. Robert Galambos 1G, John S. Harding, University of Minnesota. George W. Mackey, Rice Institute. Forris Jewett Moore scholarship Frederick C. Novello '38. Elkan Naumberg fellowship, Arnold Elston 1G. Robert Treat Paine fellowship, Robert E. Olson, Columbia University. Francis Parkman fellowship, Peter Viereck '37, Oxford University, England. James Mills Pierce scholarship and University fellowship, Edwin N. Nilson 1G. Rantoul scholarship, Donald W. Fiske 1G. James Rogers Rich scholarship, George C. Bright, Brown University. Henry Bromfield Rogers memorial fellowship and University fellowship, Arthur K. Van W. Ogden...