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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week half the universities and colleges in the U. S. were bestowing honorary degrees on such personages as William Lyon Phelps, Evangeline Booth and Major Bowes (see p. 58), without honoring Dorothy Thompson. This week Foreign Correspondent Anne O'Hare McCormick was introduced at the New York World's Fair as the Woman of 1939, a distinction which might have gone to Dorothy Thompson. Seven million, five hundred and fifty-five thousand readers of 196 newspapers scanned them in vain for the column called On The Record, whose author is Dorothy Thompson. Five and a half million...
...rituals. Broadcast to them all, from the World's Fair, went a speech on "Youth in Tomorrow's World," by Attorney General Frank Murphy, a devout Roman Catholic who is no more averse to helping the Y. M. C. A. than to endorsing the Oxford Group (see p. 54). All this smoke, fire and warm sentiment celebrated the Y. M. C. A.'s 95th anniversary...
...accepted calmly enough the one message which made headlines. For the meeting, Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote: "A program of Moral Re-Armament cannot fail . . . to lessen the danger of armed conflict. Such Moral Re-Armament, to be most highly effective, must receive support on a world-wide basis" (see p...
...performance of sacred music, and contrary to that solemnity which should accompany an exercise so near akin to that which will through all eternity engage the attention of those who walk in climes of bliss." Said "Singin' Billy": "I would rather have A.S.H. after my name than P-r-e-s in front...
Eight Seniors who have won insignia on minor sport teams for three years were awarded the Major II in Minor Colors. They are Capt. John L. Harr, Jr. '89 of the golf team, Albert N. Blanchard '39, Frank L. Downey, Jr. '39, Capt. Charles P. Hammond '39, Ralph E. Livingston '39, and Henry W. Riecken, Jr. '39 of the lacrosse team, and George M. Goodwin '39 and Donald H. Gordon '39 of the tennis team...