Word: clair
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Real Wages. "Economic research and social work are as characteristic of Western civilization as Ford cars, chain stores, radio sets, talking pictures, and tabloid papers with screaming headlines. Social workers seem more like engineers planning to reclaim a swamp than zealots trying to convert the heathen."?Dr. Wesley Clair Mitchell, director of research at the National Bureau of Economic Re-search and chairman of President Hoover's Research Committee on Social Trends. He observed that the record of earnings for the 19th and 20th Centuries in England and the U. S. has been one of alternating gains and losses...
...Fugue in D minor Polonaise in C minor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor Johann Sebastian Bach Harpsichord: Ralph Kirkpatrick '31 II Sonatine for Flute, in D major Harry Seaver '33 Flute; E. DuBois Swart '32 Pianoforte: Harry Seaver '33 III Violin Sonata in A minor Clair Leonard '23 Violin: Malcolm Holmes '28 Pianoforte: Clair Leonard '23 IV Variations on a Theme by Haydn (opus 56b) for two pianos Johannes Brahms...
Life's president nowadays is Clair Maxwell, 38, aggressive sportsman-executive, able brother of able brothers.* But the astute "War Chest'' scheme was not conceived by him. Life's vice-president nowadays is tall Langhorne Gibson, onetime oarsman, son of Artist Charles Dana Gibson, who has worked for the magazine some 40 years, is now board chairman. the scheme was not Gibson-generated. of Life is Norman Hume Anthony, in last year from Judge as a resuscitator. But it was not Editor Anthony who thought up this smartest of stratagems. man whom an admiring fraternity in applauding was broad-browed...
...code, while others watched critically its operation as a penological experiment. Only executive clemency could save convicts from the machine-like precision of these criminal statutes. Last week other States saw New York send its first woman to jail for life under their stiff provisions. She was Ruth St. Clair, 30, kleptomaniac. Her fourth offense was stealing from Manhattan's John Wanamaker store $121 worth of dresses and baby ware for which she had no need...
...with skis and other pertinent paraphernalia for operation under extreme cold and bad weather, were ready to fly last week. A first delay came when the planes were plated with ice after an all night storm. Then one of the transport planes crunched through the ice on Lake St. Clair in five feet of water, had to be hauled ashore and dried off. Eighteen flyers completed the first lap of their journey, landing at Duluth. Minn. They dined with the mayor, city officials and the Chamber of Commerce. The four transports were at various stages of the first...