Word: holds
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...announcement is not altogether satisfactory. The welfare of the House Plan and the whole fabric of Harvard education is dependent on the tutorial system, yet the tutors receive no additional salary. That a number of these men hold other positions does not obviate this objection. Some financial recognition of the increased time and effort exacted by the tutorial duties should be made beyond the usual instructor's or assistant professor's salary...
...what might be termed thought provocative drama. The legitimate theatre has been indulging in long laments on the fact that the talkies are seducing the public from them. In this picture the reason for that phenomenon becomes obvious. It is not that the motion picture has an insidious hold on the public, but that they are presenting better plays...
Huey Pearce Long, Governor of Louisiana and its next new Senator, whose inquisitorial tactics have made him many enemies throughout his State, somehow got hold of Dr. Ochsner's confidential letter. Governor Long is ex-officio an administrator of Charity Hospital. As such he last month conducted a secret "trial" of Dr. Ochsner. Medical administrators of the hospital pleaded for the culprit, called his letter indiscreet, declared that "severe action would annihilate him." But hard-bitten little Governor Long said: "I have given Tulane University everything when asked for and have been complimented for what I have done...
...Bishop James Cannon Jr. of Blackstone. Va., and his big blonde bride arrived at Manhattan from Sao Paulo last week. News reporters and photographers greeted them. Bishop Cannon: "I am an American citizen and don't wish to be harassed." Mrs. Cannon emerging from hiding in the freight hold screamed hysterically: "I suppose they [the reporters] think this is swell...
...hours after leaving Guam the Dumaru ran into a tropical thunderstorm and was struck by lightning; the cargo in the forward hold exploded. She began to burn. All the crew got safely off but the boat Fritz Harmon was in had 32 men, too many. For five days they tried to make Guam against head winds, then gave it up and headed hopelessly for the Caroline Islands or the Philippines...