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Across the Atlantic in Washington, when Representative Edith Nourse Rogers up-rose in the House to demand fuller revenge for insulted U. S. womanhood than mere "emphatic comment," Minnesota's grizzled Harold Knutson, who voted against War in 1917, replied: "I wonder whether the gentlewoman from Massachusetts speaks from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Relations Beclouded | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Signs are already appearing that the anarchy of American higher education is about to be curbed. The obvious fact, pointed out by Dean Gauss, that some of the most promising young intellects are kept out of college because of financial means, is being grappled with by Harvard's bold and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR ASSEMBLY-BELT EDUCATION | 3/20/1937 | See Source »

¶To prevent the waste of surplus power, the Bonneville administrator should be empowered to build transmission lines, substations, etc. etc. More than that, he should have a power (which TVA does not have) "to acquire by eminent domain if need be, such real and personal property, franchises, electric transmission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Bonneville Prospectus | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

This season, Grant sent in his name for tournaments which few men would have had the temerity to enter before they had been playing the game five years or more. He won every tournament he entered with ridiculous ease: the Canadian singles championship, the Canadian and U. S. doubles championships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Court Career | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Teddy and one of the waiters, a clean college fellow named Chick Kessler (Jules Garfield), meet and quarrel at first, then begin to take an interest in each other in the moonlight when he delivers a little essay about all values being relative and she proudly recites a few lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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