Word: y
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wells College (women only) in Aurora, N. Y., alma mater of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, last week inducted as its eighth president one of its own trustees, sober, pudgy William Ernest Weld, 55, Presbyterian minister, authority on India. Since 1929 Dr. Weld had been economics professor and dean of the college of the University of Rochester...
...Code Administrator Joseph I. ("Joe") Breen. Last week was announced a step, obviously the work of astute Will H. Hays, Presbyterian Elder, which may make U. S. Protestants feel better about the part their churches play in purifying the nation's pictures. The most potent executive of the Y. M. C. A., General Secretary Francis Stuart Harmon, 41, turned in his resignation, made ready to sit on the board of the Will Hays organization, the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America...
Last week in accepting what he took pains to call the "unsolicited offer" of Mr. Hays, Mr. Harmon praised the Pope's last encyclical on the cinema (TIME, July 13), urged Y. M. C. A. men to work for better films...
...successor to Francis Harmon, the Y. M. C. A. turned to China, picked a husky, genial Floridian named Eugene Barnett, founder of the Hangchow "Y" and for the past eight years in charge of all U. S. "Y" work in that unhappy nation...
...about a quarter of its original length. First office of Reader's Digest was in Manhattan's arty Minetta Lane. First staff consisted of Publisher Wallace and his wife. Their magazine promptly prospered beyond the Wallaces' wildest hopes, moved in 1923 to suburban Pleasantville, N. Y., flourished further, and last year grossed $2,178,000. Published in FORTUNE for the first time was the circulation of tight little Reader's Digest: 1,801.400. "largest ever achieved by a magazine without fiction or pictures; and larger than that of any other magazine costing 25? a copy, except...