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Three scholarships in a total of $155 were voted at the meeting of the Student Council last night to Frank W. Hatfield '38, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Chester G. Ormond '38, of Lancaster. Pennsylvania, and Dana H. Pierce '39, of South Orleans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Other Council Decisions | 11/4/1937 | See Source »

...parking meters made by half-a-dozen companies at about $58 apiece have sprouted along the streets of 40-odd U. S. cities, among them: Dallas, Houston and El Paso, Tex.; Miami and St. Petersburg, Fla.; Providence, R. I.; Kansas City, Mo.; Macon, Ga.; Atlantic City, N. J.; Scranton, Pa. Last week the Denver city council voted to install them and Baltimore was considering it. Many cities are enthusiastic about their meters. Dallas, for example, gets about $140,000 yearly from her 1,500, considers they have "solved our parking problems." But not all cities are so satisfied. Topeka. Mobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Meter Matters | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...disputed. Realizing that within State boundaries the State is sovereign and that the Federal Government has no escheat powers save in its territories, they probed further, learned that in the custody of the Treasury awaiting disposition was $160,000 in such funds from the District Courts at Philadelphia, Scranton and Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Escheat | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

Harry Hopkins. WPAdministrator, making a speech at Scranton, Pa. last week, tossed his hearers a prophecy: within six months U. S. Labor will have completely organized the mass production industries. "And," he added, "nobody will be talking about it. It will be accepted as a fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Steel Job Done | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...moving spirit of Babes In Arms had no previous theatrical experience whatever, which is evidently something of an asset since most of her colleagues are professional youngsters inclined to make up with mugging what they lack in poise. She is Wynn Murray and hails from the church choirs of Scranton, Pa. Miss Murray is the Kate Smith type, weighs some 150 lb. and, well into Act I, is the first one to get Babes In Arms off the ground when, with a pleasantly sophisticated manner, she croons of her home Way Out West On West End Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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