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Thorp has been refereeing or umpiring for more than thirty years, but his proudest record is that of having umpired 12 Harvard-Yale games in a row. Practically all his superlatives are connected with this ivy tradition. He ranks halfback Eddle Mahan as his greatest of greats but his real favorite, the "most gentlemanly" and "nicest fellow ever," is none other than quarterback Barry Wood...
...financial statement for fiscal 1938 (ending May 31). Net income was $4,110,631, $192,758 below last year but fourth highest in its ten-year history. The company also earned a surplus of $777,127, which it reinvested in the business. Kept intact was General Mills' proudest record: its stock is one of 18* listed on the New York Stock Exchange on which dividends ($6 on the preferred; $3 on the common) have been earned and paid without reductions since...
...Proudest achievement of Führer Adolf Hitler's internal policies has been the Nazi solution of former republican Germany's grave unemployment problem. In 1933 there were 7,000,000 unemployed in Germany. Today-according to the Reich's figures-there are only 338,000 unemployed, only 37,000 of these employable. In 1933 there were 12,300,000 workers in Germany. In 1938 there...
Born in 1809, Fanny Kemble was the last of the celebrated, exceedingly proud, theatrical "Kemble dynasty," the most famous of whom was Mrs. Siddons. The proudest, John Philip, whom Byron called "supernatural," sulked in retirement because he was jealous of Mont Blanc. Spoiled by her father, owner of Covent Garden theatre, Fanny was so high-spirited that at her French boarding school the only punishment that could subdue her was seeing a guillotining. Until she was 19 the Kembles had no thought of making an actress of her. Then, as a last resort to save Covent Garden from bankruptcy...
...Proudest achievement of the socialist-minded Mexican Government is its school system. In 1910 Mexico had only 600 State-supported schools and 70% of its citizens were illiterate. But the post-revolution constitution of 1917 decreed free, secular education for all. By 1921 President Obregón began to send missionaries into the rural districts to establish secular schools. A constitutional amendment in 1934 gave the Government control of all primary and secondary education, directed that it should be socialistic. Today, despite the bitter opposition of the Roman Catholic Church to the new educational plan, Mexico has some...