Cambridge versus American views at the ancient university
National Geographic reports contrasts between Cambridge England and U S colleges. It describes college life, gowns, proctors, discipline, and the separate college system with its own tutors, endowments, and radical traditions including gowns and blazers.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D.C
WNU
United States
Cambridge
St. John's College
John Harvard
Emmanuel College
Rand
Emmanuel
England
Massachusetts
Harvard College
Cambridge College
Dominicans
Carmelites
Peterhouse
Selwyn
Cambridge Tong
Newham
Girton
Oxford
University
Senate
George VI
Campbridge
Lady Margaret Boat Club
St. John’s College
Hair Removal and Weaving Rite Marked Ohio Indian Initiation
The Rocky Mountain Herald describes an early tribal practice whereby a white youth seeking full membership would have hair pulled out strand by strand until a small patch remained. The remaining patch would be interwoven with colored strings as a rite of passage.
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Rocky Mountain Herald
Hollywood Youth Stars Recall Stage Roles From Dead End
A Western Newspaper Onion item notes former New York stage boys from Dead End now in Hollywood film roles. They mock glamour and question star pay while praising Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor in This Is My Affair and Wendy Barris, Ray Milland, and Bill Gargan in Wings Over Honolulu.
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Hollywood
New York
Miss X
Twentieth Century-Fox
Barbara Stanwyck
Robert Taylor
Teddy Barbara Roosevelt
Ad. Stanwyck
Mairal Dewey
Barbara
Taylor
Navy
Honolulu
Wendy Barris
Ray Milland
Bill Gargan
Paramount Studio
Jock Benny
Mary Livingstone
Wble
Dick Foran
He Toas
Boy Williams
Onion
Dust Bowl Work Director Named by Wallace
Roy I. Kimmel is appointed by Secretary Henry A. Wallace to head a long range program to prevent the Southwestern dust bowl from becoming a desert. The plan follows the President's Great Plains Committee recommendations on erosion prevention.
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Roy I. Kimmel
Secretary of
Henry A. Wallace
Southwestern
Dust Bowl
Desert
Great Plains
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Jack Kenny
Jack
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Phil Harris
Kenny Baker
Detroit
Fred Astaire
Trudy Wood
Jimmy Blair
Trudy
Tne
Gracie Allen
George Burns
Tony Martin
Bert Wheeler
Benny Rubin
Clydebank
Scotland
Phillip Murray
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Canton
Ohio
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Ruth Armstrong
Ruth Bryan Owen
U. S
Norway
Robert Fisman Armstrong
Virg
Robert Armstrong
Washington, D. C
John Nance Garner
Armstrongs
Washington
Miss Eccles
Eleanore May Eccles
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Harold J. Steele
Houston
Texas
Penguins
Cleveland
Admiral Byrd
City of
London Bridge
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