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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than three hundred Harvard students cut short their summer vacation by a week or more to return to Cambridge and start looking for outside jobs to help pay their expenses, it was reported today by Russell T. Sharpe '28, director of the Student Employment Office...
Last week ancient Eddie Moore, still on Kennedy's personal pay roll, was too busy with his boss even to play golf on Sunday. Kennedy sat in shirt sleeves at his desk, grabbing by turns at the three phones at his left, talking to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, to Lord Halifax, to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to Franklin Roosevelt. As he always does, Kennedy worked with windows thrown wide, coat tossed on a rack, vest draped over a chair, the sleeves of his hard-collared shirt rolled over his freckled forearms, tugging his black suspenders, cussing, grumbling incoherently...
...fear of it: "To think these laughable flyleaves might have any effect! Chamberlain may know something about umbrellas, but he knows nothing about German propaganda. . . . No, Mr. Chamberlain, we want peace, but giving up the Führer, as others think we might, is too big a price to pay for peace...
Last week in the Central House gathered some 200 of the 7,000 commercial travelers who pay Gideon dues ($5), raise money for Gideon's work-putting Bibles in hotels and institutions. The 40th anniversary "Gideon Roundup" was organized by Gideon Nicholson, spry at 80. Gideon Knights was there too, but feeble at 86. Gideon Hill died three years ago. In their Roundup the Gideons made frequent devotions, lunched and banqueted, deployed to tell Boscobel churches of Gideon projects, present and future...
...rail bonds, going at $2 and up, are unlikely to become worth 100 cents on the dollar with the best of war booms. But on the gamble that they would be worth something or that the Government might take over and pay 30-40? on the dollar, speculators dived in. The Dow-Jones average of rail bonds climbed 32.5%, the New Haven's defaulted 4½s of 1967 from 12 to 15⅞ (32.3%), Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific's 55 of 1975 from...