Word: vivian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amalgamation of some 32 U. S. youth organizations, to represent 15,000,000 U. S. citizens between 16 and 25. Actually, the A. Y. C. is composed mainly of the more militantly left-wing members of its subsidiary groups. Most articulate representative in Washington last week was Editor Vivian Liebman of the Vassar Miscellany News, who informed a Senate Subcommittee on Education & Labor, that "our future husbands will probably not graduate out of the fraternity into the flophouse. Vassar students are drawn from the wealthier 10% . . . but this cannot close our eyes to what is happening to the girls...
...Martha N. Brookings, legislative representative of the W. C. T. U., cried in horror: "The book does not refer to alcohol as a poison." Senator Charles T. Moses snapped: "Certain scientific facts may be misleading and damaging to young minds." Senator Vivian Page shrilled: "We should teach the children that their first drink will be their worst." Thereupon the Senators unanimously banned the book from Virginia's schools. Last week, in a final effort to exorcise rum from Virginia, they ordered that copies of the book, printed as a Senate document, be destroyed. To the authors they hastily returned...
...surgeon need do is to wireless his line's Manhattan office, twelve to 24 hours before docking, certifying that no cases of dangerous contagious disease are aboard. This message is relayed to New York Harbor's quarantine station at Rosebank, Staten Island. Chief Quarantine Officer Dr. Charles Vivian Akin then allows the ship to pass directly up the harbor, thus saving hours for the passengers, hours and dollars for the ship's operators (TIME, Feb. 1). The Hansa was one of 84 ships having this privilege...
...Died-Vivian Burnett, 61, writer, editor, second son of Author Frances Hodgson Burnett for whose famed Little Lord Fauntleroy he was the inspiration and model; in Manhasset, N. Y. When he was seven, Vivian Burnett suggested to his mother that she write books for children like himself. That this prompted her to produce the book that set fashions for a decade and that Vivian Burnett was the prototype of its hero, Authoress Burnett confessed 13 years later when her son was a member of the track team at Harvard. Said Vivian Burnett, who later became a reporter, an editor...
...this year reached the peak of his form. On his way to last week's final he had lost only one set-to his Davis Cup Teammate Frank Parker in the semifinals. Included among the opponents whom he had beaten with distressing ease were Australia's Vivian McGrath, Czechoslovakia's Ladislow Hecht, France's Christian Boussus. Von Cramm had more trouble in his early matches, beating Australia's Jack Crawford in five sets and then playing a red-hot semi-final against England's Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin in which Austin won the third...