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The main trouble with the college world is that its activity suffers from much of the over-organization which afflicts the world outside without developing any outside interest in itself. The world beyond the academic walls has trouble enough weltering through its rotary meetings, its committee sessions, its talkfests, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Good a Copy | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

* There is a third, the rotary, used widely in Europe, not at all in the U. S.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 12, 1931 | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

Only a thin plaster partition in a Danville, Va. hotel one day last week separated the persons of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Harrison Robertson Fitzgerald, president of Riverside & Dan River Mills Co. Their industrial principles, however, remained poles apart. What tied them together in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: On the Dan | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

"I've been called 47 different varieties of undesirable persons. Now let's have a standing vote-have I or have I not any sex appeal?" - Whopper-Teller Joan Lowell (Cradle of the Deep) before the St. Louis Rotary Club.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 8, 1930 | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

Badges worn by a smalltown delegation of realtors on their way to their state convention were lettered: WE ZOOM FOR ZENITH. And a banner proclaimed: ZENITH THE ZIP CITY-ZEAL, ZEST AND ZOWIE! Heading the delegation was one George Follansbee Babbitt ". . . 46 years old now, in April, 1920, and he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Babbitt, World Figure | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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