Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Better luck attended the limelight performance of Voit Gilmore, 20, chairman of the nonpartisan, undergraduate Carolina Political Union (and president of his Chi Psi chapter). He began working last summer to get the foremost U. S. political orator of the age down to Chapel Hill to address his group, which prides itself on paying no honorariums and on cross-questioning its speakers when they are through. His college president, Dr. Frank Porter Graham, Senators Josiah Bailey and Bob Reynolds, Representative Bob Doughton and officials of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. at Winston-Salem (where Voit Gilmore lives) all helped...
...time, when there was a split in the group, Leader Codreanu was financed by the King's red-haired mistress, Mme Magda Lupescu, herself part Jewish, and on one occasion he escaped arrest by hiding in her house. When the "Little Fiihrer"was put on trial last summer many were the notables who risked royal displeasure by testifying to the Leader's undoubted patriotism...
Holding his listeners spellbound, Washburn spent the greater part of his hour and three quarters relating the story of last summer's ascent of two hitherto unclimbed peaks, Mount Saint Agnes and Mount Sanford. Still photographs, movies, and colored slides accompanied the talk and added much clarity to his vigorous explanations...
Later in the summer Washburn's expedition discovered what is believed to be the world's largest ice field outside the polar regions. In extensive flights around Mount Logan and Mount Saint Elias, Washburn proved the existence of a tremendous glacial system 255 miles long...
Jupiter now has eleven satellites; two new ones were discovered this summer...