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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...stepped into a tobacco store to buy and light a cigar. The store's owner had ignorantly connected a small 6-volt electric cigar-lighter to a high-powered city current. Schall put his face down to the lighter, gave it a flick. A terrific flash followed which permanently blinded both his eyes. With his wife's assistance he continued his law practise. She read him the cases; he argued them in court. In 1914 the backwash of the 1912 Bull Moose movement carried him to the House of Representatives as a Progressive...
...Dublin, opinion was current, last week, that only one thing prevents the Irish Free State Parliament from passing a resolution similar to that passed by the State of New York (TIME, March 10) deploring and condemning "Red Persecutions...
...This talk about the hard life of the college professor and the customary feeling of condescension toward him because of his financial situation is unwarranted and unjustifiable," writes an anonymous contributor to the current issue of the Alumni Weekly...
...theatre. This course, however, will be given but once a week in meetings of two hours duration. The first hour is to be devoted to lecturing by the instructor while the second part of the period will be given over to discussion with emphasis on criticism of plays then current...
...long? Most undergraduates do not know. To them their President is a vague figure who occasionally descends from his shadowy musnud to preside over chapel ceremonies. To the cinema-going layman he is a capped-&-gowned comedian. But Dean Max McConn of Lehigh University, in the current North American Review, drew a startlingly different picture, showing the college president as a harrowed executive plying "a dangerous trade," holding down "a man-killing...