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...Boston went Ray Lyman Wilbur. To Ray Lyman Wilbur went newshawks. To newshawks went these words of the Secretary of the Interior about his old friend and fellow Californian, Herbert Hoover...
Musical Toy Stage. Ray Lyman Wilbur, U. S. Secretary of the Interior who appointed a committee a year ago to investigate education by radio, disagreed with B. B. C.'s Director Reith. He said radio has "brought about ways in which the public can be entertained and also instructed which probably never would have evolved from the heads of the very best-intentioned government officials. . . . Time will de-jazz the radio and make it more literate and substantial. The musical toy stage of the radio has about passed...
...Vegas, Hoover Dam workmen will live at Boulder City, a construction village being built for them 31 mi. away at the dam site.* Last week in Washington steps were taken to fix the moral tone of Boulder City, make it a "model town." Appointed by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur to manage the land leasing on this government reservation was Louis C. Cramton, onetime (1913-31) Michigan Congressman, ardent Prohibitor. At Boulder City, Mr. Cramton announced, only two competing businesses of the same type would be permitted, and leases would be granted only on "character, personal fitness, personality, age, physical...
Negotiations began shortly after a fire on March 7 had badly damaged the interior of the club house. The club feels that it is cooperating at a sacrifice with the University's efforts to consolidate its holdings on the ground bounded by Dunster. Holyoke, Mt. Auburn Streets and Massachusetts Avenue, as the building which will be abandoned is not considered a total loss. The building occupied by a radio store adjoining the vacant lot, and a grocery store on the corner of Dunster Street, is leased by a Boston bank: it is understood that no offers to purchase it have...
...property. Before the public was invited to look, a memorial service was held for the lady who had not loaned but given her collection. She died last March at 66, Miss Lizzie P. ("Lillie") Bliss, daughter of the late Cornelius Newton Bliss, President McKinley's Secretary of the Interior and rich president of Bliss, Fabyan & Co. (wholesale drygoods). For her father, Lillie Bliss was hostess and housekeeper, until he died in 1911. She had learned kindness and sociability in this career, and in 1912 she stepped not only into wealth but popularity. Artists such as the late Arthur...