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...spring of 1953, the investigations touched Harvard when Robert G. Davies ’29, then a professor of English at Smith College, testified before the HUAC that he had been part of a communist cell of 15 faculty members when he taught at Harvard in the 1930s...
...British, French and Dutch oil giants, drilled the first well. It gushed at a rate of 100,000 bbl. a day. That much cheap oil was the last thing the international oil companies wanted. They clamped a lid on the well and sat on the field through the 1930s because the world was awash in oil, and prices were already depressed. Texas crude had fallen from...
Ikels’ career as a police officer traced the development of the University police from the loose confederation of watchmen that existed during the 1930s, through the founding of HUPD during World War II and the department’s professionalization in the 1960s and 1970s...
Once upon a time, outbreaks of disease and environmental catastrophe could be swept under the rug. Man-made famines in Russia in the 1930s and China two decades later were scarcely known outside their borders. But more recently the world has become too interconnected for deception of that magnitude. In 1986, when a nuclear reactor exploded at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, the Soviet government initially tried to keep it quiet. But when Geiger counters in Scandinavia went haywire, Moscow had to come clean. This year the truth about SARS emerged after citizens infected in China traveled outside the country--and after...
DIED. KAREN MORLEY, 93, brainy blond bombshell of 1930s Hollywood, who played Paul Muni's moll in Scarface, Greta Garbo's fellow spy in Mata Hari and a farm-cooperative pioneer in King Vidor's Our Daily Bread; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Later she was blacklisted for refusing to answer questions from Congress about her ties to the Communist Party...