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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless, the National Council of Christian Associations? child of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A.?does represent the student groups of some 1,000 U. S. colleges. The Council meets annually. Unhampered by the viewpoint of its parents, it has been consistently, since the World War, veering leftwards. In Kalamazoo, Mich, in 1928, chafing (in its own words) "under its own unintelligent inconsistency of failing to square its practice with its radical profession/' it appointed the Economics Commission which reported last week...
...Ralph H. Thurber was a liar, an unskillful liar. He said his mother lived in Philadelphia. Cleveland authorities tried to locate his mother in Philadelphia. Actually they found her at Lockport, N. Y. Forthwith they took Thurber's fingerprints. The prints indicated a Bertillon record which showed that the man had been in California, Ohio and New York prisons for forgeries most of the time he claimed he was in the Far East. As a forger he was inept. As a missionary he was fluky. But where did he get his worms? That remained Cleveland's puzzle...
Married. George Alfred Cluett Jr., young member of the New York Stock Exchange, son of retired Board Chairman George Alfred Cluett (haberdashery); and Julia Sturtevant, of Columbus and Chilicothe, Ohio; in Katonah, N. Y...
...Scarsdale, N. Y., Joan Marcuse, 2, wandered with a playmate of the same age three blocks to the Bronx River and fell in. The playmate trotted back to Joan Marcuse's home, told a nurse, who with a passerby fished out Joan Marcuse's body...
...Francisco, William Williams heard the intonations of a minister and the music at his mother's burial service in Schenectady, N. Y. Unable to gp home for her funeral, he had made arrangements with the telephone company to "sit in" by wire...