Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There have been two recent incidents of another kind...
...most effectively vocal defenders of the utilities industry in recent years has been sharp-eyed Charles Wetmore Kellogg, who served two years (1936-38) as unpaid, part-time president of the Edison Electric Institute, the industry's statistical and public relations organization. Last week the Institute revised its setup, voted itself a fulltime, paid ($40,000 a year) president. To Charles W. Kellogg, now 59, who resigned as chairman of Engineers Public Service Co. last week, went the job. His biggest task: to win the public's sympathy for the utilities in their long-standing feud with...
Invitation to Happiness (Paramount). Prize fighters are not numerous, but the recurrent movies about the marital problems of prize fighters who marry above them have attained national significance. Most piquant of the recent lot, Invitation to Happiness bridges the social gap in a one-reel leap, thenceforth takes up where most palooka-heiress movies leave off, to see what may happen to such an alliance in, say, ten years...
...Yale's most brilliant hurdlers of recent years, Shields took second in the 1937 International Meet. This year, however, he started slowly and finished only third in the Crimson-Blue dual meet behind Donahue and Dick Osborn of Yale...
Professor Burbank's resignation may imply merely that he has tired of the stress of administration and wishes to retire to more scholastic activities. Yet, following so closely on the heels of the recent purge of "middle group" men, those who bear the brunt of tutorial activities, the resignation has rather disquieting implications. Now, more than at any time i nits career, the tutorial system needs strong friends, able doctors who can pull the system out of its recent attack of budgetosis. Yet Professor Burbank has packed up his bag and closed his connection with the case. Does this move...