Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line with suggestions by Will Durant for a "West Point for Public Servants" and by Robert W. Kelso '04 in "A College of Public Welfare" (an article appearing in tomorrow's Harvard Alumni Bulletin), the Institution marks an attempt to "catch them young" and train an efficient American civil service. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who was forced to call experts to New York from all over the United States to aid in Gotham's administrative reorganization, has already requested the Institution to set up a "laboratory training" school to provide better municipal employees...
Best acting and direction are reserved for the central story, concerning Tony Mako (Joseph Spurin-Calleia), a deadeyed, neurotic murderer who attends the show handcuffed to a detective because their train leaves late. Tony wants two things: to see the little man who betrayed him dying at his feet; then to drop dead himself. He gets both wishes. One or two of Small Miracle's side excursions are gratuitous and one or two are trite, but the tangled threads never slip out of the capable hands of Director George Abbott. The net effect is as pungent and authentic...
Although Captain Gian C. Brusati was the only member of the Italian fencing team on hand due to missed train connections, a number of matches were improvised between Harvard and American stars in order to avoid disappointing a large crowd which had gathered last evening at the Indoor Athletic Building...
Last week without undue ceremony Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, trusted Secretary of State to Pope Pius XI, left Vatican City, drove to Rome's railroad terminal, boarded a train for Genoa. There, next day, he embarked on the S. S. Conte Grande for South America. Last month it had been announced that on the first leg of his trip Cardinal Pacelli would formally inaugurate Vatican City's $1,500,000 railroad system, abuilding since 1929. This plan was abandoned. But the departure of the erudite Cardinal-Statesman was epochal enough...
...front of her hotel, wriggled her bare toes in the gutter, asked newshawks: "There isn't anything wrong with shorts, is there?'' Last month, clad in men's shorts and a shirt, Mrs. Holmsen rode from Manhattan to Reno on the observation platform of her train, got so dirty from soot that ''a dignified gentleman" threatened to have her put off the train as a blackamoor. In Reno, still in shorts but without shoes or stockings, she entered a restaurant bar, was chased out by a head waiter...