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...brightest liberal ornaments of the South, the first U.S. state university to open its doors, last week celebrated its 150th anniversary. At Chapel Hill the Tarheels of the University of North Carolina had every reason to congratulate themselves on their sesquicentennial. North Carolina had had to grow in a climate which had often been desolating to the liberal spirit. But the University had grown lustily and had substantially changed the very air in which it breathed...
...vised and stepped up" later, were established for all 3,070 U.S. counties; 200,000 members of local War Savings Bond Committees went to work. Investment security dealers saw an opportunity to be patriotic and to gain favor by ringing doorbells without getting paid for it. The 150th anniversary of the New York Stock Exchange, celebrated this week, took the form of a war bond rally...
...Washington. D.C. Last week well-planned Washington had become the prime U.S. example of the weaknesses of permanent city planning. With housing facilities overflowing, wide avenues glutted, its normal population (500,000) swelled to 1,000,000, war-tan-gled Washington had forgotten to celebrate the 150th anniversary of L'Enfant's plan...
Celebrated in Washington this week, by proclamation of Franklin Roosevelt following joint resolutions of the Senate and House, was the Sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary of the U. S. patent system. The first patent act-passed by Congress on April 10, 1790 and signed by President George Washington-set up a three-man patent board: the Secretaries of War and State and the Attorney General. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson was also keeper of records. His staff was a part-time clerk. An inventor himself (a mold board for plows, revolving chair, combination stool and walking stick), Jefferson read every application that...
...unprejudiced observer at last week's ceremonies could deny that Franklin Roosevelt had won his war. Of the eight Justices solemnly observing their 150th birthday, four* - Black, Reed, Frankfurter, Douglas-were virile, young New Dealers of the Roosevelt stripes...