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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than one undefeated record toppled to earth as the strong-armed octet from Philadelphia broke a five-match winning streak of the home squad. A doughty Freshman team eked out its sixth consecutive victory, felling Andover 16-14 here at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENN CRUSHES MATMEN AS 1941 WINS, 16 TO 14 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Last week Mrs. Vanderlip, widow of the Manhattan banker and a pillar of the Manhattan Swedenborgian church, presided at the Manhattan Swedenborg banquet to which President Roosevelt sent a praiseful telegram. In Boston, Swedenborgians dined in their Church of the New7 Jerusalem on Beacon Hill. In Philadelphia, Episcopalian Joseph Fort Newton spoke at a Swedenborg gathering in the University Club, while in nearby suburban Bryn Athyn, Swedenborgians of the schismatic General Church of the New Jerusalem held a dinner in the assembly hall of their slowly-building cathedral. These Swedenborgians have a bishop-George de Charms-whereas the main body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For Swedenborg | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Even if Columnist Winchell's figure had been true, which it apparently was not, 4.2, * while far short of the great variety shows' ratings which soar into the 30s, is about equal to the 4 average of the highly popular Philadelphia Orchestra. But NBC officials, smoked out, declared that Toscanini's rating was 9.1, which is on a par with the score of the New York Philharmonic's Sunday afternoon broadcasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No Kidding | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Class of 1940: Joseph N. Ball, Jr., Philadelphia; Robert S. Bart, West Redding, Connecticut; Melvin B. Black, Roxbury; Robert H. Clapp, Watertown; William N. Dale, Clinton, New York; Otto W. Fick. Jr.; Oak Park, Illinois; George M. Firestone, St. Paul, Minnesota: Arnold S. Gale, Brookline; Tudor Gardiner, Gardiner, Maine; Leonard C. Holvik, Elbow Lake, Minnesota; Garfield H. Horn, Elk Grove, California; Ward MacL. Hussey, Chicago, Illinois; George S. Kurland, Dorchester; Paul Olum. Binghampton, New York; Robert L. Peesok. Peninsula, Ohio; Isadore N. Rosenberg Boston; Stanley J. Sigel, Portland, Maine; Charles G. Swain Wolaston; Leverett S. Tuckerman, Jr., Saem: and Harry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 42 AWARDED DETUR PRIZE BOOKS FOR TOP SCHOLARSHIP | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Freight Rates. From Pottsville, Pa. iron ore can be shipped to New York harbor for $1.21 a ton, but the rate on a ton of anthracite is $2.39. Fuel oil shipped from Harrisburg to Philadelphia goes for 62? a ton, 24? cheaper than coal. This difference must be covered in anthracite prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Industrial Cannibalism | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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