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Despite the final score, however, the high spot of the afternoon was Alexander Northrop, the 185-pound red-haired captain of the Crimson who steamed around the Stadium track to set records in both the mile and the half-mile, leaving Crimson and Blue competitors alike in the background...
...such scholars has set up in New York the New School of Social Research, which well-established institution has gone so far as to publish its own quarterly magazine and issue as its first supplement the pamphlet on Taxation. Recommended by the April Fortune as essential reading for the background of the tax controversy, the pamphlet is an eloquent testimony of the contribution the refuges have for American thought and life...
Despite Richard Whitney's Groton & Harvard background, social connections, family tie-up with J. P. Morgan & Co., his brokerage business apparently went from one financial crisis to another. In 1926 he was so hard-pressed for funds that he hypothecated the funds of his wife's trust fund for a firm loan, subsequently repaid it. In 1929 his brother lent him $500,000. In 1930, same year he became president of the Exchange, Richard Whitney began misusing securities of the New York Yacht Club. By 1931, Depression had nicked him so badly that he used his position...
...tests given by other schools." The difficulty arises from the fact that other schools have considered college records, aptitude and personality all together, and thus failed to isolate the results of the aptitude tests. "Personality," remarked Mr. Landis, "tends to be more guesswork." He said it might mean social background or almost anything that the interviewer wanted to take into consideration...
...niece with a gambler. The check rein of Will Hayes may be partially responsible for Miss Lillie's failure to amuse as readily on the screen as on the stage. The ocillades and gestures on which she relies appear only crude before the camera. Bing Crosby provides an innocuous background, giving repeated versions of "On the Sentimental Side," but the laurels belong to Andy Devine, who as Policeman O'Roon with boisterous diligence, stamps on crime...