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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chances for the college man's success in public life will come up for scrutiny when Otis T. Wingo, Jr., 23-year-old executive secretary of the National Institution of Public Affairs, speaks on "Youth in Politics: A Gamble or a Career?" in Lowell House Common Room Thursday night at 7.45 o'clock under the auspices of the Harvard Liberal Club. Plans for the organization's activities during the year will be announced at the meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINGO WILL ADDRESS LIBERAL CLUB ON YOUTH | 10/16/1934 | See Source »

...Townsend opened the Plan's first office last November in the rear of a Long Beach real estate salesroom, with a one-legged man as assistant, a Salvation Army protege as janitor. Success was quick. California's myriad oldsters came in masses to his meetings. By thousands they bought his 25� pamphlet. They sent the word back East to the old home-folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Townsend to Burst | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...Laigret, an enterprising man, tried unsuccessfully to get authority to inoculate Frenchmen with mouse-brain virus alone. In Tunis he was successful. When vaccinated Tunisians showed suspicious reactions (fever, hemorrhages). Dr. Laigret decided that he had used unduly big doses, and moved to French West Africa. The success which he announced last week was due, he said, to minute doses of the infected mouse brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mouse Brains v. Yellow Fever | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...chipped, flaked, powdered and blown through the end of a nozzle for the sole purpose of making a housewife buy one soap instead of another. Indeed, the defense went further last week, arguing that the form of Ivory Snow, Supersuds or Rinso had little to do with their extraordinary success: it was only the advertising that counted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Soap & Soap v. Soap | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

Lecture by Prof. Rotch, "History of Aeroplanes and Dirigibles." Success of the former prophesied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROUGH THE YEARS | 10/13/1934 | See Source »

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