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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plug mailboxes with heavy metal fittings on each State occasion, since for half a century Italians have been prone to "mail a bomb" timed to explode just as its intended object is scheduled to pass the mailbox. To this precaution against an old Italian custom was added last week search of sewers and cellars for bombs, banishment from Rome for a few days or jailing of all suspect persons, and an arrangement whereby one or more police agents stood in the hall of every building past which the German Realmleader was driven. Such is the Business called Dictatorship...
...with a stylus on moving tape every twist of the radio switch and dials. It registers programs received, whether a program was tuned de liberately or found by dial twisting, whether it was heard through the full period, tuned out at any point, or kept on only after unsuccessful search for something better. Eliminating memory and other human fallibilities from listener-interest testing, Audimeters should tell advertisers just what audience he has and precisely what in his program, if anything, drives an audience away. Independent of telephones, the survey should sample the 13,000,000 radio owners who are without...
Since Ingalls is scheduled to hurl against the Ithacans in search of his third league triumph, Tom Healey will twirl the first game on Saturday for the Crimson with Slim Curtiss slated to take up the burden in the second encounter...
Although it got badly burnt in its search for a beautiful woman (see above), University of Chicago last week found oil to soothe its smarts. Oil has been the University's sustenance from birth. Of its $121,000,000 assets, $78,000,000 came from the Rockefellers. In the 1890s the University was called a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co., was twitted in an apocryphal alma mater song: "Praise John, from whom oil blessings flow." Last week University of Chicago struck oil on a tract of land it owns in Olney, Ill,* and began to collect royalties...
...many years they have insulted every honest student who has trudged up those steps in search of an education. For too many years the accompanying murals have offended his aesthetic sensibilities. The war memorial in the Chapel is a fitting and adequate tribute to the idealism engendered by the greatest of all social disasters. There is no need for a mature university to surround the tragic blunder with the maudlin sentimentalism of the verses and murals in Widener Library. Where was the "righteous cause," the "victory...