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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt gratefully sent him to Europe to look for possible U. S. grain markets. Said Mr. Davis then: "My job will be to size up in a realistic way just what the prospects are for American farmers to sell more of their goods." Last week, ending a six-week tour of Europe, Mr. Davis told newshawks in London: "There is not the slightest hope we can regain for some important commodities the great markets here we once enjoyed. . . . The farmers at home must continue national efforts to adjust their production to these changed conditions...
...basketballer who was glib enough at debating to help defeat Wellesley on one occasion. As a matter of fact, Vassarette McAfee is something of an academic cosmopolite. She was born on the campus of Park College at Parkville, Mo., founded by her grandfather. After Vassar she made a grand tour of Eastern & Midwestern male and female institutions teaching economics and sociology, wound up at Oberlin...
...Fentress County as the "greatest civilian soldier of the War," he promptly married his childhood sweetheart, Gracie Williams, with Tennessee's Governor performing the ceremony. His next wish was to build a good school for the neighbors' children. Hero York raised $10,000 by a lecture tour, Tennessee put up $50,000 and proud Fentress County pledged $50,000 more. In 1929 the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute opened its doors, offered young mountaineers a respectable education through high school in addition to training in farming and trades. Each morning busses rumbled the 3 2-mile length...
...Manhattan, home from a world tour, arrived the nation's No. 1 birth controller, Mrs. Margaret Sanger, with much to say to the Press. In India, Mrs. Sanger said she obtained indorsements from 45 medical associations, founded 50 birth control centres, spoke at 100-odd meetings and "found no opposition in India from any religious group. . . . Everybody accepted the idea that something must be done to halt the increase in population and the inevitable death of women and children...
With the stated meeting in University Hall at 9:30 o'clock, followed by a tour of inspection of the archives of Widener Library, the Board of Overseers to the University yesterday opened their annual two-day visit here...