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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Happened One Night, which provided Harry Cohn, Columbia's Production Chief, with sufficient capital for the most elaborate program in the company's history for next year: 48 pictures, 32 of them ambitious features. Frank Capra will direct Broadway Bill, in which Warner Baxter will appear at twice his usual salary...
...Manhattan Poughkeepsie is more accustomed to the genteel antics of Vassar College girls than to the annual turbulence of a college rowing race. Since it started in 1895, the Poughkeepsie Regatta has become the biggest, the most important of the year. The succession of races has been interrupted only twice: first during the War, again last year when few of the participating colleges felt they could afford to send boats Last week, the river was again filled with big shiny yachts; excursion craft, canoe; and launches got in each other's way, capsized, annoyed police boats. By the time...
...unique in its way. Never have more than 50 newshawks appeared at one of Mr. Farley's Press conferences, but when he invited the Press to last week's "house-warming" in his new private office, no less than 150 newsmen went to see and marvel. Twice as large as an ordinary living room, it was a study in green and brown. One whole wall was a bank of French windows facing on a sunny balcony. At opposite ends rose huge black marble fireplaces. Before one of them sat Mr. Farley, in a green leather armchair...
...elements Professor Fermi played with last spring was uranium. Uranium, discovered in 1789, is the mother stuff of radium, and the heaviest element on earth (twice as heavy as tin). Astronomers believe that elements heavier than uranium must exist in the interior of the sun. Geologists admit that perhaps near the core of the earth may be something heavier than uranium. But there certainly has been none anywhere near the earth's surface where man can lay his hands on it-until possibly last week...
...straighten out Nicaragua's messy election system. The Dodds Law which he whipped together in a few months still helps to keep Nicaraguans honest. He spent 1925 in Chile as technical adviser to General Pershing's Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission. Hard-pressed Nicaraguans called him back twice in 1928 to help make his law work. After the election everyone shook hands all around-winners, losers and Expert Dodds. He has been called "the best-known North American in South America." Meantime there was work at home. In New Jersey he chairmanned Mercer County's planning commission, served...