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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialist Labor Party scorns the Socialist Party for advocating pacific reforms, scorns the Communist Party for advocating violent reforms. It advocates no half measures. Its motto is "Capitalism Must Be Destroyed," by which it means a "peaceful approach" to a complete "Proletarian Revolution." As such it claims to be the original and only true party of Socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Chevrolet Campaign | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...With the approach of the presidential election, Harvard takes on a more fevered appearance. Buttons of various sizes and hues appear. Meetings of political groups, assemblies, debates, all fill the air with their cries and cheers. Everywhere can be heard political discussion, opinion, creed, code or cant. Statistics; proving either of two sides, are called into play by the clever. Rumor and scandal, easy to remember and difficult to refute, are used by the unscrupulous. The whole college is caught up in the maelstrom of political interest and factional discussion. Harvard has awakened to the fact that there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RES PUBLICA | 10/29/1936 | See Source »

Located on the highest peak in New England, this station has for four years served as a valuable weather sentry for New England, warning of the approach of air masses over this area, and thus aiding in the improvement of local forecasting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mt. Washington Weather Bureau Gets Donation Amounting to About $3,250 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...action of leadership in requesting spectators at Princeton contests to abstain from the use of alcoholic liquors while attending these games will no doubt be open to much horrified criticism. It is a delicate subject at best, which college presidents have been too prone to approach from the aspect that "this matter presents no problem for us". Such whistling in the dark, however, seems decidedly off key when one is treated to the spectacle of any college football stadium after the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/22/1936 | See Source »

...Geneva British Delegate Mr. William Shepherd Morrison said of Economic Pacification: "We are likely to prefer-it is our British way-a pragmatic and practical approach, slow but sure." This, however, is not the Australian way, and that Dominion's vigorous representative, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, roundly declared to the Assembly's Economic Committee: "The progress of Science in the last 15 years has made possible efforts of production which would enable a higher standard of living to be reached than anything known in the past. Yet, because of the economic conditions prevailing in the world today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Economic Pacification | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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