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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much of it is drawn from letters and diaries that Hill kept, its accuracy cannot be questioned and actual quotations from these make the biography as readable as one may desire. Few first-band accounts of college life in the early forties and late thirties of the past century remain for public view today, but with the help of personal files this book contains an exceedingly fine contemporary account, written by Hill, of the Harvard of that time. This generation, brought up to understand that the boys of a century ago were polite little drones spending all of their time...
Henry Herbermann did not remain a truckman for long. For some $60.000 he bought and became president of Export Steamship Corp., which operates between New York and the Mediterranean. When after the War the Federal Government set out to restore the U. S. merchant marine to its oldtime glory by means of mail subsidies and cheap construction loans, Exporter Herbermann got the first mail contract. His subsequent activities were aired last year before the Senate committee investigating air and ocean mail contracts. Discoveries: 1) the Shipping Board spent $1,825,000 to repair 18 ships which it sold bolt...
...should like to answer the personal attack made on myself and my article, "The Phoenix in the Babbitt Warren," which appeared in the February "Advocate." The author of this somewhat scurrilous attack chose, for reasons best known to himself, to remain anonymous, and so I must rely on you to call this letter of mine to his attention...
Collections of medals, letters, books, and pictures of President Eliot are now on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library, and will remain until after the celebration of the centenary on Sunday, March...
...hand, it is a sop to the actors who insist that something must be done for domestic incompetents now out of jobs, and in its magnanimous provision that the presence of distinguished foreign artists in America will be tolerated, it is a concession to producers who would probably not remain altogether silent at being forced a surrender many of their most effective moneymakers to the cause of national planning...