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...Federal aid to vocational education under the George-Deen Act passed in June 1936. This was 10,000,000 more than the President recommended in his budget message. It was also contrary to the recommendations of a special advisory committee headed by University of Chicago's Floyd Wesley Reeves, which the President appointed in September to sift pending educational legislation...
...adaptation, it covers the subject of playing in the snow as thoroughly as an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog, and to much better effect as entertainment. For the huge white panels of snow-covered mountains against which the Swiss sequences in the story are outlined by the camera, Director Wesley Ruggles took his whole cast and crew of 250 not to the Alps but to Sun Valley. Idaho. There, in a fold of the hills eleven miles from Union Pacific's famed new Sun Valley Lodge, he built an exact duplicate of a Swiss village, including an outdoor skating rink...
...George Horace Lorimer retired from S.E.P.'s editorship in 1936. Present editor: Wesley Winans Stout...
Full of zeal and optimism, in San Francisco ten years ago Methodists of four of the city's biggest churches-Central, California Street, Wesley, Howard Street-sold their properties, pooled $800,000 to form a superchurch which they called Temple Methodist. Their optimism the Methodists expressed by building a 27-story hotel, highest on the Pacific Coast, at Leavenworth & McAllister streets in downtown San Francisco. The William Taylor Hotel, with a cathedral-like, 1,300-seat church concealed in its second, third and fourth floors, would support Temple Church, everyone felt, retire its $1,550,000 in first mortgage...
Married. Margaret Arline Judge Ruggles, 24, brunette cinemactress; and Daniel Reid ("Dan") Topping, part owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers football team and grandson of the late Tin Plate Truster Daniel Gray ("Tsar") Reid; in Reno, Nev., immediately after she divorced Film Director Wesley Ruggles...