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...Boyish-looking Fig Newton, Cherokee-blooded and a onetime vaudevillian, promoted seven separate petitions, ranging from a Sunday closing blue law to freedom for Political Prisoner Tom Mooney. Most interesting Newton proposal was a $100-a-month pension for the needy blind and disabled to be financed by a State-run lottery. Chairman of the Lottery Board, at $10,000 a year, would be Irving ("Fig") Newton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Doorbell Lawmakers | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

When Educator Day's election to Cornell's presidency was announced, a newshawk asked whether in the course of dispensing $27,921,557 in Rockefeller money to U. S. colleges and research agencies, he had ever given any to State-run Cornell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Day for Farrand | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...natural goal for those enrolled in the proposed adult courses would be the "A. A.", or Accumulative Arts degree, already given to those who complete a required number of courses under Harvard instructors in the state-run extension school. There is no need for a new degree; this country is already overrun with initials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FOR ADULTS (2) | 12/17/1935 | See Source »

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