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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike other Freshman organizations, the Union Committee is financially independent. The Redbook, Smoker, and Jubilee budgets must be approved by the Student Council, and this year their expenditures will not only be informally supervised by Langdon P. Marvin '41 and Harvey Taylor '42. Student Council representatives for Freshman affairs, but their books will be regularly audited by the treasurer of the Council. Kendric N. Marshall '21, secretary of the Union and an instructor in Government, is the Union Committee's guardian angel and Faculty advisor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ninth Union Committee Meets Today to Map Plans for Year | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

Died. Dorothy Maud, Countess Haig, 60, widow of the late plodding Earl Haig, Commander in Chief of the British Expeditionary P'orce during World War I; in Glyn Bangor, North Wales. In The Man I Knew, she warmly defended her much-criticized husband after his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Whether the war boom is a stimulant that will give Business a lift toward permanent recovery or will only give it a hangover, is a prime question for economists to argue. Last week in an address to industrial leaders summoned by General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr., in Manhattan, Dr. Harold G. Moulton, pudgy president of Brookings Institute explained his view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Boomology | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

France, inquiring for 20,000 trucks, placed a $3,500,000 order for 2,000 with Yellow Truck & Coach. Studebaker landed another French truck order, White Motor Co. another. Goodrich had orders for 645,000 feet of A. R. P. fire hose from Britain, Hewitt Rubber for 1,300,000 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Boomology | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

CAPTAIN ABBY AND CAPTAIN JOHN-.Robert P. Tristram Coffin-Macmillan ($2.50). Mr. Coffin, who loves his native Maine, made this "story of a plain Yankee home that went to sea" out of "the bare bones of fine and brave and godly living." The bones: logs of the voyages of Maine Sea Captain John Pennell; three diaries minutely inscribed by his wife Abby; her letters to her mother. Compiler Coffin appropriately fleshes these bones in hearty, homey, dash-a-tear language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: NON-FICTION | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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