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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discussing the "Impending Crises in Western Society," Gunner Myrdal, well-known European economist, will inaugurate a new series of four Godkin lectures on the general subject, "The Population Problem and Social Security," at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EUROPEAN ECONOMIST TO CONTINUE SERIES OF GODKIN LECTURES | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...question was: "Resolved, That this House favors the adoption of mandatory neutrality for all armed conflict arising outside the Western Hemisphere." The affirmative team, composed of Dewey K. Ziegler and George Minkin, won one decision and lost one; the negative, consisting of Frank B, Jourdan and Max D. Gaebler, lost three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '41 ORATORS LOSE IN ROUND - ROBIN DEBATE | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

...Western section is made up principally of paintings, examples of sculpture being confined to very small pieces. The most colorful pictures seem to be those done in the 19th century by such artists as David, Delacroix, and Manet. Only one contemporary work is shown, a picture of two horses by Chirico which almost seems to be a reversion to the primitive style of the East. Represented also are paintings and drawings by Albrecht Durer, Sassetta, Leonardi da Vinci, Rubens, and Goya. From the 19th and 20th centuries come Daumer, Stubbs, and Degas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

...military title from years of army service, mostly among the Indians. To knowing the American Indian through & through McCoy owed his introduction to the entertainment business. Called in as a technical adviser in 1924 for the filming of The Covered Wagon, he so impressed casting directors with his vivid Western personality that he was signed up, eventually starred by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia, Monogram (Beyond the Sierras, The Square Shooter, Code of the Rangers). For three seasons he was a star name in the Ringling circus. On the side he owns and operates a 10,000-acre cattle ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: The Real McCoy | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Amadeo Peter Giannini of San Francisco sits on top of a great banking pile. His Bank of America has 492 branches in California. Mr. Giannini also controls some 60 other banks and branches in other Western States. His Transamerica Corp., bank holding company now being renovated as an investment trust, controls Occidental Life Insurance Co. of Los Angeles. In June 1936 at a court receiver's sale Occidental bought Federal Reserve Life Insurance Co. of Kansas City and last year acquired Guaranty Life Insurance Co. of Davenport, Iowa. Last month Occidental started negotiating with Sears, Roebuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No Deal | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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