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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fourth Century Greek Architecture," Professor Conant, Robinson Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/13/1932 | See Source »

...Last week was mostly visitors week at Warm Springs. Important callers on the President-elect included Arkansas' Senator Robinson (short session program), Alabama's Senator Bankhead (Muscle Shoals), Nevada's Senator Pittman (silver), Louisiana's Senator Long (nothing in particular), Missouri's Senator-elect Clark (farm mortgages), Texas' Senator Connally (cotton prices). American Tobacco's George Washington Hill came to discuss upping tobacco prices. Rear Admiral Cary Grayson was told that the Roosevelt inaugural, which he will arrange, must be severely simple and inexpensive. The call of Henry Agard Wallace, bolting Republican farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Roosevelt Secretariat | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...Acropolis," Professor Conant, Robinson Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/10/1932 | See Source »

...ROBINSON (Charles, illustrator) Make-Believe. By H.D. Lowry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODERN BOOKS WHICH ARE DUE FOR A RISE | 12/7/1932 | See Source »

...William Kirby Robinson, aged 31, robbed an Arkansas post orifice, was sentenced to four years in Leavenworth Penitentiary ("Bankers' Institute"). On his way to prison he picked his handcuffs loose, plunged from a moving train at Coffeyville, Kan., made his escape to California. There he married, served as a deputy sheriff, grew well-to-do running a store and tourist camp at Westmoreland. Conscience-stricken, he turned up at Leavenworth in October, announced that he was ready to serve his term. Only after a long search could the Department of Justice find any record of his case. He told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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