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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representative Ralph W. Sullivan's bill to prevent the "teaching of atheistic communism" in Massachusetts schools and colleges was killed by a voice vote in the Senate of the General Court this afternoon. No debate preceded the voting...
When he heard the glad news, Slick Airways' President Earl F. Slick took some employees out to his ranch near San Antonio for a big barbecue. In Los Angeles, the Flying Tiger Line's President Robert W. Prescott, 35, was equally elated. Said he: "We have finally dropped the curse of the unwashed...
...Criminal Mind. In Paris, police reported that someone broke into the Van Craeyenest Circus and stole a lion. In Oakland, Calif., Bert W. Harberg was arrested on charges of selling a government-owned bridge. In Sturgis, Ky., residents enjoyed one free parking space because someone stole a parking meter from Adams Street...
...invited in by the directors last December to reorganize the management. President William C. Jordan disagreed with Shields's plan to go outside the aeronautical field to get new business; the company had not done too well making non-aeronautical products. Last week both Jordan and Chairman Guy W. Vaughan, who had stepped out of the presidency when Jordan stepped in, left the company. Shields began shopping for a new president-and new business...
...course in some phase of the motion-picture--two Winthrop House tutors did this past year. R. J. Dorius and S. F. Johnson offered House members an opportunity to subscribe to a film series on the American Comedy. The program they selected included Chaplin, Keaton, the Marx Brothers, W. C. Fields, and others. There were six evenings of films and five of discussions. The cost was two dollars for the series, and each subscriber could bring one guest. The discussions on the cinema were conducted by Professors Poggioli, Richards, Levin, Matthiessen, and Coolidge. About 150 Winthrop men became students...