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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor, his wife, his daughter Jean and son Eric had already gone to bed. A little later theatre crowds were able to hear and cheer the final unofficial figures: LaGuardia, 1,344,016; Mahoney, 889,591. It was the first time Tammany had ever had to bow to Reform twice running. It was the Fusion candidate's first absolute majority...
...conquerors, an endless stream of gold flowed to their high capitals from mines deep in the gorges of the Andes. Forced labor was used and few except the conquered Indians and their masters knew the exact location of the mines. Along mile-high precipices, over the backs of peaks twice that height, the laborers toiled with bags of nuggets. Llamas could carry only 100 Ib. through that rarefied air, burros-even though an extra set of nostrils had been punched through their nasal passages at birth-about 150 Ib. Men were cheaper, but when forced labor was abolished no paid...
Study. Oxford's famed tutorial system, now assiduously being copied in U. S. universities, permits undergraduates to cut lectures, requires only that they visit their tutors once a week and pass an examination twice a year. Pupils usually read essays on their reading to their tutors. One pupil, Briant relates, passed his essays, with the marginal criticisms of his tutor, along to his successors. Thereafter "the complacent Fellow sat in his armchair, agreeably engrossed in his own problems, while year after year different pupils read him the same essays." The Briant conclusions: Not more than 20% of Oxford...
...Twice since their births the Quintuplets have been the subject of physiological reports by Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the country doctor who delivered the five little girls. But not until last week's meeting of celebrated U. S. and Canadian child psychologists at Dr. Blatz's St. George's School for Child Study were the Dionne sisters' mentalities and behavior publicly assayed...
...accordance with this last scheme, Chairman Taylor four years ago hired young Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr., a vice president of General Motors, made him vice-chairman of the all important U. S. Steel finance committee, succeeding a man twice his age (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933). Since then it has been generally expected that Ed Stettinius would be Myron Taylor's successor as chairman of the board of directors. Last week, announcing that next April he would step down from the chairmanship, Myron Taylor made good this expectation...