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...Waldo Frank at 47 is at least as much a part of the U. S. scene as the Hyde Park orators are of London's. Unlike most liberals he suffered a broken crown for his beliefs (in 1932 when he led a relief committee into troublous Bell County, Ky.). Last September he was jailed in Terre Haute because he was in Communist Candidate Earl Browder's company...
With gold worth something over $1,000,000,000 already stocked away in its great new fortress-vault at Fort Knox, Ky. (TIME, Jan. 25), the U. S. Treasury last week announced similar plans for insuring the safety of its silver. Soon the Treasury plans to ask for bids on a building similar to Fort Knox depository, but somewhat larger, that will be built on a four-acre tract near the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, will hold 2,000,000,000 oz. of silver...
...month of March 1837, the citizens of Louisville, Ky. gathered for a momentous mass meeting. Dr. Charles Caldwell, of Lexington, wanted them to set up a city-supported medical college which would eventually form the nucleus of a university. Nine years later, with a law school added, the institution became the University of Louisville, first municipally founded and supported university in the U. S. This week at the end of another March, President Raymond Asa Kent officially launched the three months' round of visits, banquets, speeches and solemn academic exercises that will make up the University of Louisville...
...Murray, Ky., unreconstructed Southerners, offended by the term "refugees," welcomed thousands of unkempt flood sufferers as "visiting friends...
...Fort Worth establishment will be a copy of the successful Federal narcotic farm opened at Lexington, Ky. nearly two years ago, except for a difference in the patients. Lexington is primarily for Federal prisoners who are addicts. Fort Worth is to be primarily for voluntary patients. Volunteers will be obliged to present certificates from their private doctors that they want to take the cure. They must sign an agreement that they will remain in the hospital until discharged. If they can afford it, they must pay $1 a day for board, room, and doctoring. Two years' experience at Lexington...