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...year-long survey of 332 cities having a total population of 36,000,000 [shows] that no city achieves more than 50% observance of civil rights presumably guaranteed its citizens...
...Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society will close their current season as a joint organization tonight with the performance of the Brahms Requicm with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This program is the culmination of the year-long labors of hundreds of students, and it manages at the same time to be one of the major musical events of Boston, for the excellence of the undergraduate group has been fully recognized...
Died. Henri Anatole ("Papa") Deibler, 76, wealthy perfumer, who as "Monsieur de Paris" (traditional name for France's executioner) pressed the button at more than 400 guillotinings in his 40-year career; of a cold; in Paris. As well-known to French newspaper readers as Edouard Daladier, "Papa" Deibler was latest of a 68-year-long line of Deibler-executioners. He rarely appeared in public except in his official capacity, traveled incognito in a private compartment. Few days after his death, his 80-year-old uncle, Leopold Desfourneaux, was appointed his temporary successor, to execute one Maurice Pelorge, murderer...
...Hollywood, Motion Picture Research Project, headed by Dr. Leo Calvin Rosten and financed by a Carnegie Corp. grant, took offices on Hollywood Boulevard, to conduct a year-long survey of movies, moviemakers and movie society, findings to be published in book form by Harcourt, Brace some time...
...over the matter and in 1921 the General Federation of Women's Clubs adopted a truth-in-fabrics resolution. Last year the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, through a committee headed by Miss Jaffray, sent a petition to Washington demanding that all goods have labels identifying their fibre content both so buyers would not be deceived and so they would know how to treat their purchases. During the FTC's year-long study of the matter, 2,000,000 more women sent petitions seconding the idea. Meanwhile, rayon producers grew worried, presented a voluntary...