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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also under consideration is the question of whether the School should reduce its number to an enrollment of a thousand students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Broader Set of Studies Vital to School, States Landis Report | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

...keenest Kieran of all is the New York Times's, John Francis, considered by many the best-equipped sports philosopher since William Hazlitt (1778-1830), known to many more as the least stumpable question-answerer on Canada Dry's Information Please program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kieran & Co. | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Last week Red, now a Yale freshman, set out to get prestige of his own by stumping Dad on an Information Please question. With millions of radio listeners tuning in, one smart Kieran asked another to give the first line of three poems. Father John muffed Shakespeare's Silvia completely, identified The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (but gummed up the first line), had trouble getting the curfew before the knell in Gray's Elegy. Mused Father John into the microphone in Kieranized Shakespeare : "How sharper than a thankless tooth it is to have a serpent child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kieran & Co. | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...staff of interviewers have asked this question to a carefully selected cross-section of students of all descriptions: "Has any attempt been made on your campus to influence you with communism, socialism, or fascism?" By geographical sections, they have answered: Yes No New England 8.2% 91.8% Middle Atlantic 19.5% 80.5% East Central 12.2% 87.8% West Central 4.2% 95.8% Southern 5.2% 94.8% Far Western...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Propaganda Not Prevalent, Poll of Students Reports | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Board's ruling, made on December 29, awarded the workers a 10 per cent increase in wages, a 48 hour week, and deferred the vacation question until sometime later. But, according to Joseph Stefani, business manager of local 106, the management refused to accept the agreement and is demanding a review of the case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORKERS STRIKE FOR SECOND TIME IN SEVEN WEEKS | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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