Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard Fund headquarters in Wadsworth House last night, with the approval of the Senior officers, announced the appointment of John B. Bowditch '37 as Class Agent for this year's Seniors...
...education fails to make itself an effective agent of democracy, both in helping to meet the basic human needs in the spirit of democratic justice and in advancing the ablest and most devoted to positions of leadership, it may be because American teachers do not know how to stand together for such an end or to use the means at their command." It is for this reason that Dean Henry W. Holmes, in his annual report for the Graduate School of Education, vigorously insists that teaching should be a "permanent, independent, and powerful profession." No one can deny the vital...
...years from August 1933 to July 1935.* Last autumn, Mrs. Roosevelt began dictating her autobiography, carried it up to the Democratic National Convention of 1924, showed the manuscript to Franklin Roosevelt when it was done. The President suggested no changes, and Mrs. Roosevelt's dapper literary agent, George T. Bye, made the sale not to Crowell's Companion but to Curtis Publishing Co.'s Home Journal. Proceeds of Mrs. Roosevelt's writing and broadcasting have hitherto been donated to various charities. What charity would receive the Journal's undoubtedly large check (probably upwards...
This was the first mass murder ever effected directly by a chemical agent in war.* The Germans made a 3½-mile breakthrough, would have penetrated much more decisively had the German high command had more confidence in their new weapon before it was tried...
...initials U.S.S.R. against the blue. Up went six slow Austrian army planes in pursuit. Audaciously the skywriter jazzed the municipal airport, disappeared, leaving the army flyers to their humiliation, the populace to speculate on the motive for the deed. Some patriots thought the scribbling pilot was a German agent provocateur sent up to bolster the Nazi thesis that Czechoslovakia is a "Bolshevik outpost." Best explanation: an unreconstructed Austrian Red commemorating Vienna's abortive Socialist-Communist counterrevolution of February...