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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Sirs: In regard to your article of chiropractic allow me to express my views. I am a student at the National College in Chicago. I have only been here six weeks, but the value and benefit to mankind has so impressed me that slander and direct insult such as your illustrious writer put forth seems unfair. . . . . C. E. DAVIS Junior National Chiropractic Association Chicago...
Calling for a mobilization of undergraduates to express their determination not to fight in the European war, a group of seven undergraduates last night began circulating a petition for a mass peace rally to be held here at 11 o'clock Thursday morning...
...biggest, coldest, and most callous city in the world, this mighty mite--part-Italian, part-Jewish, and very poor by birth--had endeared himself to millions of metropolitan hearts. His willingness to express himself frankly and enthusiastically on any subject imaginable had gained Fiorello H. La Guardia the reputation of complete honesty and sincerity among his fellow New Yorkers and among his many admirers all through the country...
...struck back at the disappointed job-seeker who had assailed him on the steps of the City Hall. He was the first man to arrive at the scene of a subway accident, the booted and helmeted director at every big fire, and the first male to dare express his disapproval of women's hats. Speaking over a nation-wide radio hook-up, he claimed to be the living inspiration of Walt Disney's little dwarf Grumpy...
Then, two laps from the finish, the pony express got steamed up. Off went Rice like a quarter-miler. While 14,000 spectators stood on their toes and yelled themselves hoarse-and Tutor Nurmi sank forlornly to a wooden bench in the infield-Rice tore around the Garden like a tornado, broke the tape 28 yards in front of Maki, 20 yards in front of onetime Record-Holder Don Lash, who had also whizzed past the Finn. Rice's time (13:52.3) not only broke the world's record he set six weeks ago, but was only...