Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduates who see me for the first time have read your newspapers and heard on the air that I am, at the very least, an ogre - a consorter with communists, a destroyer of the rich, a breaker of our ancient traditions. You think of me perhaps as the inventor of the economic royalist, of the wicked utilities, of the money changers of the temple. You have heard for six years that I was about to plunge the nation into war; that you and your little brothers would be sent to the bloody fields of battle in Europe; that...
After Green had read some telegrams, and committee head Robert E. Lane '39 had spoken a few words on how Harvard Indifference had been broken down, the featured speaker, movie star Cantor appeared. He was alternately intensely serious and extremely humorous...
...Warm Springs, Ga. was to be real relaxation, real "play." He swam in the warm pool, drove his car through the hills and forests, held an open-air press conference. He carved a Thanksgiving turkey for fellow paralysis patients, singled out Eddie Cantor's Thanksgiving greeting to read aloud: "I am grateful that I live in a country where all leaders can sit down . . . and carve up a turkey instead of carve up a map." Correspondents noted that his tongue and temper, raspy when he left Washington, were improved. When he took occasion to tell "his other State" (Georgia...
Into a yellowed, two-story frame house at Endicott, N. Y. one day last week a delegation bore 18,000 cards and stacked them on a table before the old man who lives there. "From a loyal E. J. worker to our friend George F.," read each of the cards. "On this Thanksgiving we are thankful. We want you to be thankful with us." Thankful with them was George F. (for Francis) Johnson, cofounder and board chairman of Endicott Johnson Corp., second largest shoe manufacturing company...
Started in 1898 by Southern Pacific Co., then engaged in colonizing and propagandizing its western empire, Sunset was circulated mostly in the East and widely advertised by Indian posters captioned: ''You can see Indians like this in the Far West and read about them in Sunset Magazine." In 1914 Southern Pacific sold the magazine to employes. They set out to publish a thick "Atlantic Monthly of the West." Circulation drooped, dropped...