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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Helping Chrysler explain its dilemma to the public was James Lee, a son of the late, famed Press Agent Ivy Lee (whom Laborites still remember as "Poison Ivy"). To the press and to dealers facing a shortage of cars at the start of their new season, Chrysler's President K. T. Keller sent a letter: "We are getting practically no production from any of our Detroit plants. . . . You cannot run a business on a sound basis and produce quality automobiles if men . . . take into their own hands the running of the plants." To bulbous, loud Richard Frankensteen...
Green-eyed, 31-year-old Mr. Sadler is an East Texan whose mother sold her chickens to give him a start when oil was discovered in the great East Texas field nine years ago. Hustling Jerry Sadler worked at odd jobs and high wages, saved his money and studied law. Last year, still a political unknown, he ran for a place on the important Texas Railroad Commission (which regulates Texas oil production). Weeks before Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel started to campaign with his Hillbilly Band, Jerry Sadler was touring Texas with the Sadler Stringsters...
...first time this year, Harvard will have every man in uniform and ready for action. And more to the point, Captain Torbie Macdonald will start his first game. His running, his passing, and his very presence in the lineup should be the determining factor in picking a Harvard win today...
...Morse of the Christian Science Monitor: "Penn has a vast start over the Crimson by way of experience. Possibly more than half of Harvard's starting line will find boys who have never played in a major contest. That factor cannot be overlooked. . . . It must be made up by alertness and effort. Macdonald is sure to come in for particular notice...
Miss Katharine Schroeder, instructor of the dance at Radcliffe, will start the series at Agassiz Theatre with a lecture entitled "Towards Understanding the Dance." Then come talks on various phases of dancing illustrated by Radcliffe girls, for the double purpose of educating the dance audience and interesting Harvard men in actively taking part in ballot...