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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Generals and lieutenants alike now get a medical going-over once a year. However much he has done to raise the pep quotient, Malin Craig has not been able to do a great deal about age in the upper ranks. He ran into the facts that: 1) it takes a long while to make a colonel; 2) only colonels may be made generals. By last June 30. after two and one-half years of Malin Craig's regime, the average age of 46 brigadiers was down one year (to 59 years, two months): of 21 major generals, down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Craig's Accent | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...Ritz was a Swiss peasant who at 17 became a waiter in a Paris restaurant. Fifteen years later he was managing the most luxurious hotels in Europe. By the 90s when the Hotel Ritz opened in Paris, he had made himself a Pied Piper to royalty and the international upper crust, and had given the world the adjective "ritzy." But for most readers the big news in his 70-year-old widow's biography will be that he really existed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hotel Man | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...astonishing success of the C. I. O. invasion of mass production industries can be explained by two things, he said: one, he is too far removed from the point of view of rank and file labor; two, he is conditioned by his income, which puts him in the upper middle class bracket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paul Sweezy Sees Green Ally Of Worst Opponents of Labor | 10/8/1938 | See Source »

From the officers of Harvard, Clinton P. Biddle, professor of investment Banking, and Associate Dean of the Business School. From the alumni of Harvard, Kenneth B. Murdock '16, professor of English and Master of Leverett House. From the students of M. I. T., Oswald Stewart, 2nd. From the three upper classes at Harvard, John D. Andrews '39, Thomas V. Healy '40, and David D. Henry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coop Declares Dividend to Be Paid on Next Thursday | 10/5/1938 | See Source »

Plans for the Fall include a dinghy racing schedule on weekends and possible intra-college racing in Tech boats. As a preliminary to this year's activities a meeting of Freshmen interested is to be held tonight in the Upper Common Room of the Union at 7:15 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAILORS MAKE PLANS | 10/5/1938 | See Source »

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