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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were voted to the following: John Black '38, Paul T. Choate '39, Franklin W. Coleman '38, Charles V. Haley '38, Raymond J. Harris '40, and David R. Simboli '40. Due to the unprecedented number of applications for aid, the Council voted awards to a much larger group than usual at a single meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL VOTES $675 TO STUDENTS, CHARITY | 12/15/1937 | See Source »

...your servant, but regretfully not so obedient as usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Disobedient Herbert | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...Thompson's unique invitation was typical of N. A. M.'s painfully self-conscious course in self-improvement, undertaken in its efforts to school itself for political maturity and the national leadership which it felt its members must rightly and inevitably inherit. Lengthening their convention from the usual two days to include a third called "Labor Day," the manufacturers turned many an unfamiliar stone in their search for enlightenment. They will listen to Leo Wolman on the labor outlook; General Hugh Johnson on "Wages & Hours Legislation;" Colgate University's President George Barton Cutten on "Hiatus in Social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coalition Congress | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Last year the reading had to be postponed until February, and was held in the President's house, but this year it is planned to take place in the Upper Common Room of the Union, as usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Copey's Christmas Reading Will Come on December 15 | 12/9/1937 | See Source »

...usual, the B. B. C. was putting its official glaze over the facts, for everyone at the London Palladium saw and heard King George roaring and Queen Elizabeth laughing till the tears came at the way Cicely Courtneidge burlesqued a "larky spinster," at Gracie Fields scratching herself as an itching mill girl and at Jack La Vier hopelessly entangling himself in a trapeze after he had announced, "Now I'll show you just how far insanity has advanced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Command Performance | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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