Judge — May 1937 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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36. Barbara Hutton von Reventlow is learn- ing one of these languages in her spare time: Italian Finnish Russian Arabic Spanish Flemish 37. The only all-Chinese hockey team may be found in: San Francisco Los Angeles New York Peking Canton Montreal 38. You will get bald quickest if you are: a blonde a Malayan a colored person a Chinese ared head @ brunette 39. Vertigo is a form of: rheumatism house paint headache dizziness 40. How is your spelling? Only one of the following words is correctly spelled: descendent picnicing superintendant supersede occuring noticable 41. Who was the champion home run hitter on the National League in 1936? Lew Gehrig Mel Oit Dizzy Dean Max Carey 42. What is the oldest living tree now on Manhattan Island? otk elm tulip tree hemlock hickory 43. To whom is this phrase attributed, “I am the state!"? Roosevelt Mussolini 44. The hyphen is correctly used in all but one of these compound words: house-boat jolly-boat Louis XIV Napoleon Hitler Huey Long boot-tree muzzleloader witch-hazel stone-blind 45. One of these countries is considered to have the best public (free) educational sys- tem in the world: United States Norway Great Britain France US.S.R. Mexico Japan lualy 46. A trochee should make you think of: @ cocktail cracker @ verse form @ musical note a lozenge 47, The cinema stars, Jane Wyatt and Mar- garet Sullavan, both made hits and, were drafted to Hollywood from one of these shows: Stage Door Once In A Lifetime Dead End Winterset Boy Meets Girl Dinner At Eight 48. Sommes Sound is the only geographical phenomenon in North America comparable to a Norwegian fjord. It is located on: Hudson Bay Bocca Grande Island Catalina Island Puget Sound Mt. Desert Island Cranberry Island 49. How old is the bushy haired pianist, Paderewski? 61 years old 82 years old 95 years old 76 years old 20 years old 45 years old 50. In private life, Helen Wills Moody is accomplished in one of these forms of art: dancing _ playing the violin singing painting modelling etching ANSWERS ON PAGE 30 Number of correct answers. o--o Multiply by two for score. “Hassim spent his vacation in New York, you know!” 1927 ~~ 1937 TEN YEARS AGO THIS OCTOBER The fundamental policy of the Bell System is not of recent birth—it has been the corner-stone of the institu- tion for years. In October, 1927, it was reaffirmed in these words by Walter S. Gifford, President of the American Tel. and Tel. Co. “The fact that the responsibility for such a large part of the entire telephone service of the country rests solely upon the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and its Associated Com- panies also imposcs on the management an unusual obligation to the public to see to it that the service shall at all times be adequate, dependable and sat- isfactory to the user, “Obviously, the only sound policy that will meet these obligations is to continue to furnish the best possible telephone service at the lowest cost consistent with financial safety. “Earnings must be sufficient to assure the best possible telephone service at all times and to assure the continued finan- cial integrity of the business. Earnings that are less than adequate must result in telephone service that is something less than the best possible. “Earnings in excess of these require- ments must either be spent for the enlargement and improvement of the service furnished or the rates charged for the service must be reduced. “With your sympathetic understand- ing we shall continue to go forward, providing a telephone service for the nation more and more free from imperfections, errors or de- lays, and always at a cost as low as is consistent with finan- cial safety.” BELL TEVEPHONE SYST 27 comicbooks.com