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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Disney, the Artist, is nothing like as widely known as Mickey, the Mouse-or any of Mickey's score of charming fellow players in the Disney zoological stock company. In fact, when some art historian of the future sets out to chronicle the rise of the animated cartoon, the quest for original drawings by the man most responsible for it will be about as difficult as it is now to locate additional authentic Rembrandts. Walt Disney has not drawn his own pictures for nine years. To turn out the mass production issued nowadays under his name, he would have...
...news, for railroad revenue began to fall on most fronts. Car-loadings are now some 20% under last year at the same season. With 28% of U. S. trackage already in the courts, the railroads were quick to clamor for Government help in the form of a general 15% rise in railroad freight rates. For a month railroad men and business leaders have almost unanimously maintained that the alternative to a rate rise is Government operation. Hearings before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington by last week had become such a unanimous parade of evidence that almost everyone began...
...earnestly. But established practice before any commission allows a petitioner to request an immediate emergency order after presentation of ample evidence pending a final decision. Last week the railroads resolved to take this step. Through the Association of American Railroads they asked that the ICC provide an emergency rate rise immediately to last until February when final hearings had been scheduled. The reason: many roads could not hold out two months longer...
With an average of four inches of new snow falling throughout New Hampshire and Vermont yesterday, skiing prospects are good for the weekend, providing the weather remains the same. According to latest reports, however, rain and a rise in temperature is expected...
...Inteliectual Senility" is the charge hurled at Harvard men in an article appearing in one of the current undergraduate literary publications, a charge hurled with all the vigor of intellectual potency which it denies in others, a charge which cries out for the undergraduates to rise and prove their intellectual worth before it is too late. The basis for this claim that the youth in College at the present day have passed their intelectual prime and are tottering in dotage seems to rest on "the observable tendency of the College to blight young thinking," this blight taking the form...