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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's and Mr. Hopkins' pleasure. The rebels were led by Joe Starnes who demanded that $55,000,000 be earmarked for flood and drought control; Wilburn Cartwright of McAlester, Okla. who demanded $150,000,000 be earmarked for roads; Alfred Beiter of Williamsville, N. Y., who demanded $300,000,000 be earmarked for Public Works. They in turn had the backing of the lobbyists of the steel and cement industries and the American Association of General Contractors. What! cried the earmarking bloc. Billions for beans for the unemployed and not one cent for pork...
...favorites to win the team title were Columbia, which last won the outdoor I. C. 4-A in 1879, and Pittsburgh, which never had won. Mainstays of both colleges were Negroes: Columbia's Captain Benjamin Washington Johnson and Pitt's tall (6 ft. 4 in.) John Y. Woodruff, neither of whom had won an I. C. 4-A title. When fleet little Ben Johnson not only whizzed home first in .the 100-yd. dash and won the broad jump, but also reeled off a 220-yd. semifinal in a near-record 21 sec., Columbia thought the championships already...
...Henry Botkin, Robert Brackman, Alexander James, Sidney Laufman, Henry E. Mattson, Paul Sample, Louis Bouche. Showgoers lifted most surprised eyebrows when they beheld Doris Lee's Catastrophe, which showed a Zeppelin in flames over Manhattan, its passengers drifting earthward in parachutes (see cut). Working in arty Woodstock, N. Y., Mrs. Lee finished her fantasy long before the Hindenburg disaster. Painting the Manhattan skyline last August, she saw the Hindenburg fly over and imagined how it would look if it exploded...
Addressing the Buffalo Advertising Club, Professor Burges Johnson, chairman of the department of English at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. and onetime editor-in-chief of Judge, declared: "Mark Twain is the alltime, all-America cusser. He could cuss five solid minutes without repeating himself...
Relationships between government and business is the general topic to be discussed. The opening meeting will be held on then afternoon of the 18th in the Reading Room of Baker Library when Glenn A. Bowers, director of the division of Unemployment Insurance of New York State, William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, and Thomas H. Sanders, professor of Accounting, will speak...