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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unnatural Neutrality Act given the Germans, in practice, a great advantage" over the Allies, while it does not affect this country's chances of staying out of the war, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, said in an address at a meeting of the Harvard Student Union in the Union last night at which Dean Hanford presided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Embargo Act Is No Aid To Us, Holcombe Says | 9/28/1939 | See Source »

That undergraduates are "uninformed and greatly confused" about international problems is the accusation made by the editors of the Daily Californian. The current debate over the complicated Neutrality Act would rend to emphasize this failing. To pierce this alleged fog of undergraduate confusion is the avowed purpose of the following paragraphs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FACTS OF THE MATTER | 9/28/1939 | See Source »

...Congress which is currently meeting in Special Session may either: (a) retain the present Neutrality Act; (b) repeal it and substitute Senator Pittman's "Cash and Carry" plan; or (c) repeal it without making any further legislation. If the existing statue is retained, all shipments of arms, ammunition, and implements of war will be barred. It says nothing of the raw materials and semi-finished products which made up 85 percent of U. S. shipments to the Allies during World War I. Although the "Cash and Carry" proposal prevents American ships from carrying cargo to belligerents, the present law makes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FACTS OF THE MATTER | 9/28/1939 | See Source »

...course, which is given at the Business School, is chiefly concerned with labor relations and with collective bargaining, which assumed such importance to businessmen after the passage of the Wagner Act...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slichter's Labour Course Opened to Businessmen Under Leatherbee Will | 9/27/1939 | See Source »

...much more to the plot, and the comedy arises more from well selected epithets and a number of choice expressions and apt phrases than from comedy of situation. This type of humor is bound to pall at times, and it does in this play in the third act. What might be called the "heart of gold scene" is not good, and the "denouncement" is worse, but in such a criticism one tends toward carping...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

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