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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the presidency of Kellogg stepped tall, grey-haired, grey-eyed William H. Vanderploeg (rhymes with Kalamazoo). Plucked from a vice-presidency in Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank last July, he had been Kellogg's executive vice president. To the chairmanship retired Will Keith, hoping to devote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: 40 Years Later | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

After the Yale football game, Fesler will be able to devote all of his time to the hoop squad, and about five more men will report at that time. At present, some 20 men are working out in the evenings. Next week afternoon drills will start.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball Team Practice to Start For MIT Game | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Forty years ago a young English doctor sailed his ketch along this same coast, and was so moved by the abject poverty of the inhabitants that he decided to devote his life to the betterment of their lot. Today hospitals and schools, missions and orphanages stand as tribute to the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

In part the editorial said: "We are glad that even if the University does not feel free to institute athletic scholarships at the expense of the regular holders, its alumni are interested enough to devote time and, we hope, money to buy us a good football team."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHICAGO GRADUATES THINK OF BUYING SOME FOOTBALL STARS | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

Last week all that was left of Yost's famed point-a-minute football teams-the early-century Wolverines who during five years (1901-05) lost one game out of 57 and rolled up 2,821 points to their opponents' 42-were invited to Ann Arbor for a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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