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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twenty-third Thanksgiving, the unanimity of the College is striking and especially symbolized by the historic rapprochement between the Crimson and the Lampoon. Little room for disagreement can now remain. Considering the issue more vital than the John Reed Society protest, the magazine editors have invited Mr. Browder to attack this curtailment of religious freedom from the steps of their Mount Auburn Street building. Perhaps it can be considered fortunate that infringement of speech and religion have occurred together. In one telling blow, delivered to a crowd that should block every street from Plympton to Dunster, Browder can express...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOVEMBER TWENTY-THIRD OR BUST | 11/16/1939 | See Source »

...Torbie and Charley Spreyer will alternate at tailback. Should the Crimson captain prove that he is ready to play the major portion of a game, changes may be in order. With Macdonald and Spreyer in the game at the same time, Harvard would present its strongest and most dangerous attack...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Captain Torbie Macdonald Is Certain To Play Against Wildcats on Saturday | 11/14/1939 | See Source »

...civilian subjects by the King's military enemies. Rate for this air-raid insurance: ?1 of premium for every ?100 of insurance. Rate for London is the same as that for Leeds or Rosyth or Dover or anywhere else; i.e., Lloyd's thinks that the attack, when it comes, may be general, not just local showers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Lloyd's Guess | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...wear a beard. Louis Gianopolis, an old shepherd, when taken to the prison barber to be shaved, screamed: "You're not the boss here, God is boss and you will be punished." The barber cried: "I'm the boss!" with that fell dead of a heart attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...stranded in Munich beyond closed frontiers (TIME, Sept. 18). Since then various reports have trickled out of Germany: that Miss Mitford had quarreled with her admirer, Adolf Hitler, had attempted to commit suicide by overdosing herself with sleeping potion (which Berlin denied), that she had had a severe attack of double pneumonia and was confined to a Munich nursing home. Latest bulletin: from Russian Prince Nicholas Orloff, quoted last week in the London Sunday Dispatch, that she shot herself in Munich the day France and England declared war. Said Prince Nicholas: "The doctors expressed little hope . . . I believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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