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...nine years Robert L. Ripley has been producing a newspaper feature (TIME, March 26, 1928). At the head are the words "Believe It or Not-by Ripley." Below are cartoons and descriptions of astounding freaks, seeming impossibilities. At the bottom appears the legend: "On request Robert L. Ripley will send proofs and details of anything depicted by him." Recently a volume of selections from the series was produced by mass-production-publishers Simon & Schuster...
Beginning Monday, May 20, there will be held an exhibition of some of the work of several members of the staff of the School of Architecture, in the Old Fogg Museum. Professors Haffner and Conant, and Messrs. Murphy, Warren, and Ripley will be represented in the exhibition, which will include water colours, oil paintings, drawings, and other media...
Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, who represented a resolution for a sweeping investigation by a special committee of the United States Senate. Senator Walsh revealed that his attention was drawn to the subject by the writings of Professor William Z. Ripley, of Harvard University, in his book, "Main Street and Wall Street." Professor Ripley had paid considerable attention to public utilities, the merger of power companies, the pyramiding of holding companies and their financial practices, and the growth of interstate power; and raised the question whether the time had not come for Federal regulation of the electrical industry, so rapidly...
...report of the Harvard Business School was limited to interstate transmission of electrical energy in 1926 no comparison was made with any previous period; and no indication was given that the whole trend of the electrical industry, as shown by Professor Ripley and by reports of the Federal Trade Commisson itself, is in the direction of interstate transmission...
There were no ladies on the lower floor, but countless beaming eyes from the galleries testified their interest in the human mass that was collecting below, filling every point of the building, wave upon wave. The Rev. Dr. Ripley of Concord, ninety years of age, commenced the services by prayer.... "The age that was past" seemed speaking to one and all this time-worn form with oracular energy. Then the following Ode "Fair Harvard" by the Rev. S. Gilman, was performed for the first time by a select choir...