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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military establishment was divided up on a new principle of four geographical "Armies," consisting of regular and national guard units. Each year one of these armies was to be assembled for maneuvers. Last week the first of these annual maneuvers opened at Pine Camp, near Watertown, N. Y., where five divisions of the First Army under Major General Dennis E. Nolan assembled for training and mock battle...
...Wimbledon were crowded briefly by that small, ubiquitous group of young men with white flannel trousers and sunburned noses who make it their business, all year round, to wangle for the world's major tennis championships. Last week the group was preparing to descend on Forest Hills, N. Y. for the last major event of the year, the 54th U. S. Singles Championship. Meanwhile the long series of preliminaries to that tournament were being brought to an end at Chestnut Hill, Mass. and South Orange...
...joint action of the commuters, Phillips Brooks House and the CRIMSON has established a commuters' center at Dudley Hall, we plan to reemphasize social service work in the Greater Boston settlement houses where we have previously assisted, and to attempt to aid additional houses, such as the Cambridge Y. M. C. A., where we have formerly placed only one or two men, Frank W. Vincent, Jr. '36, will be in charge of the work of this committee...
Founded in the gaudy 1890's, American Hide & Leather today has only two tanneries, one in Lowell, Mass., the other in Ballston Spa, N. Y. No dividends have ever been paid on its common stock. Arrears on $10,000,000 of preferred stock now stand at $21,000,000 or $214.25 per share, highest arrearage of any preferred issue on the New York Stock Exchange...
Then followed a performance which, for sophisticated spectators in the crowd of 40,000 that jammed the wooden grandstand and bleachers of Good Time Park at Goshen, N. Y., stamped Greyhound as the greatest trotter seen on a U. S. track since Peter Manning, more than a decade ago. Stride by stride through the backstretch he cut down Warwell Worthy's lead. On the turn into the homestretch he passed her, swinging out, and the two came into the straightaway neck & neck. A faint cloud of dust, raised by hoofs and wheels, lengthened and faded as the sulkies drew...