Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coshocton Boy. Headquarters of the A. F. of L. is a seven-story brick-&-limestone building in an unpretentious section of Washington at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and 9th Street. The slow elevators, the middle-aged employes give the place the atmosphere of an old government bureau. Outside in the sun on benches flanking the entrance sit visiting unionists waiting to buttonhole their leaders as they leave the building. On the top floor in a corner office protected by two women secretaries sits William Green. Among his books are such correspondence school volumes as Training of the Voice, Analysis...
...second wave of Japanese came over, this time from the northwest, bombing the Drum Tower residential section of China's capital. In a total of four hours' bombing, wave on wave, Japanese airmen dropped everything from enormous 500-lb. explosive charges which destroyed whole blocks and rocked the earth, to small, incendiary bombs no bigger than hand grenades, which ignited everything they touched that could possibly be set afire...
Plague & No Prisoners. The cholera scare at Shanghai (TIME, Sept. 27) had grown to a ghastly actuality last week with 1,600 cases in the International Settlement alone. Reputedly thousands of natives were down with the plague in their Chapei section into which Japanese sent occasional shells and bombs...
...islands off the Massachusetts coast there is a lighthouse whose property is flanked by a long beach, part of which is government property and part private, the private section fronting land owned by wealthy and prominent inhabitants of the neighborhood. The owners of this exclusive property complained to the lighthouse keepers that a group of domestic servants and townspeople were using this beach and thus destroying their privacy. But the lighthouse keeper, saying that the language he had heard the property owners using on the beach did not entitle them either to exclusive beach rights or the respect...
...class, 3239 answered the question as to their proposed life work, and of these 163 members, or roughly half the cross section, placed themselves in the three categories. With a total of 330 men more or less sure of their careers, the Class of 1940 had an edge of 11 men in Law and 13 in Medicine over this year's Freshman class. Proposed Vocations of Freshmen 1937-38 Aircraft 1 Anthropology 2 Architecture 5 Art 1 Astronomer 1 Biology 1 Business 35 Accounting 3 Accounting C.P.A 3 Banking 4 Investments 2 Chemistry 22 Biochemistry 1 Criminology 1 Dentistry...