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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swore in Florida's new Senator, Scott Marion Loftin, appointed to succeed the late Park Trammell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...suspension bridge over Chasm Falls in Estes Park, Colo, seven hikers were enjoying the moonlit scene one night in 1933. Suddenly the bridge collapsed. Down into the swirling water 40 ft. below plunged Sisters Adele and Virginia Fowlkes of Denver, one Marion Scilley from Loveland. Last week on behalf of Sister Adele, who received severe leg and spine injuries from the fall, Sister Virginia appeared before the House Claims Committee in Washington, retold her experiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: $5,000 Fall | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...behind this Catholic-hating, Negro-hating, Communist-hating group and other floggings and murders which could be pinned on it, newshawks discovered that there was a defunct women's division. "I'm the colonel and proud of it," disclosed a Mrs. Grace Lupp of Highland Park. "The auxiliary was organized two years ago, solely for political purposes. . . . We tried to keep it a clean organization, but we found it was very difficult. . . ." Willingly "Captain" Geraldine Nankervis explained the Legion's virtues: "It keeps our husbands out of beer gardens for one thing. Then, too, we know that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mumbo Jumbo | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

History and Literature Prize, of $50, to the member of the Junior class in Harvard College who shows the greatest promise in the field of History and Literature, to Howard F. Schemer '37, of Oak Park, Illinois...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN UNDERGRADUATE CASH PRIZES AWARDED | 6/5/1936 | See Source »

Howard Franklin Schomer '37, of Oak Park, Illinois, has been awarded the History and Literature Prize given the Junior who is considered to be the most promising student among his classmates in this field. He will be given $50 to be spent on books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wendell Prize in History, Literature to Schlesinger | 6/3/1936 | See Source »

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