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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under what recognized or legal practice is this permitted and under what guise does it escape the constitution of an "unfriendly act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...that the drastic action of last June was unnecessary lay beneath all these protests. But the so-called "Committee to Save Education at Harvard" differs in one way from its forerunners. Enough time has passed since the first kicks were made over the firing of the professors for this act to jell into the symbol of a policy the committee fears. And it is on the basis of this concern that it now makes an appeal for student support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONCERN FOR A CAUSE | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--Sen. Key Pittman, D., Nev., leader of President Roosevelt's fight to repeal the Arms Embargo section of the Neutrality Act, today angrily challenged his isolationist fees to add cotton, oil and American-mined metals to the embargo list to prove their sincerity...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

...doubts that alteration of the Johnson Act, which prohibits leans to defaulter nations, would affect our trade with Britain. "I think she probably has ample resources to pay in cash for all of the goods she will need to buy from us," he stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO BOOM IN EMBARGO REPEAL---HANSEN | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

...time that he was putting into effect the recommendations for increased security of the Faculty committee on tenure, but his critics pointed out that the committee foresaw no such immediate action as was taken. Criticism ran all the way from the one that called it an ungracious act on the part of Harvard to those who had served it well for many years to that which deduced a trend toward neglect of the College in favor of the University. Strongly supporting the latter view was the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa which condemned the loss of the experienced "middle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FACULTY'S FIRST ROUND | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

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