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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They said . . . that the condition of the country was such, and the divisions among the Democratic party, as between the present aspirants for the nomination, that it might become indispensable to renominate me as the only means of restoring harmony, and of preserving harmony in the next election, and that it might become my duty to yield.". . . They urged also the condition of the country being engaged in a foreign [Mexican] war, and their conviction that I would be the strongest man of the party. I still adhered to my often expressed determination to retire at the close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Among the wobbling governments of post-War Europe, when revolution or relief were the alternatives, he had packed a lifetime of experience: cabling pleas for food, studying revolution in Hungary as the Bela Kun* Government rose and fell racing around a Europe where panics and crises, revolution and breakdown flared in the first days of peace. Through ten of those 20 years he had been Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce organizer of Mississippi flood relief. His reputation as a humanitarian and an administrator was unequalled. Through the next ten years that reputation had been overlaid by another: he had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Symbol | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...takes the mat tomorrow in this weight. Pete Illman, in perhaps the best trim he has been for a long while, looks like a real threat in the 165 pound class. Some hard workouts during the week have ironed out a few difficulties, and he can now be placed among the best wrestlers on the team. Tudor Gardiner is slated to grapple unlimited this week...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: CHARGED WRESTLING LINEUP TO MEET TUFTS | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

...Schmidt camera is unique among astronomy telescope in giving sharp focus over a large area of the sky. Light enters the telescope through a correcting lens, travels onto a spherical concave mirror, and is reflected back onto the film which is also curved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observatory Student Invents Device Simplifying the Schmidt Sky Camera | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...last year or so, the Varsity squash racquets team has been pushed into the background--a fate especially undeserved for a sport which enjoys such tremendous popularity among students and which has produced so many Crimson National Champions in past years. There are 71 squash courts scattered over the campus which are filled almost every hour of the day by a vast army of racquet enthusiasts. And even in loan years Harvard teams have not failed to be up near the top in Intercollegiate circles...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Waht's His Number? | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

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