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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference in London had talked themselves dry. Most of them wanted arbitrarily to boost the export price of wheat 10%. Leaders of this faction were three great wheat-sellers: Canada, Australia and the U. S. Drought in those lands had reduced the wheat crop, already boosted the price. Last August's Conference had given them such adequate export quotas for the current year (Canada: 200,000,000 bu.; Australia: 105,000,000; the U. S.: 47,000,000) that they were willing to give up part of them. Opposed to the principle of dear wheat was Great Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Big Failure; Small Success | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...Historical Association's retiring President Charles Austin Beard, 59, famed liberal historian (The Rise of American Civilization, with his wife) and onetime Columbia government professor. The Commission's research director, George Sylvester Counts, is a professor of education at Columbia's Teachers' College. Its chairman, August C. Krey, teaches history and the history of education at University of Minnesota. Other Commissioners include: Ada Louise Comstock, president of Radcliffe College; Isaiah Bowman, director of American Geographical Society, Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes, Columbia historian. One of four who refused to sign the report was University of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Surveyors & New Society | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Harvard will probably be represented by Sebert E. Davenport, III '34, Frank W. Jones, Jr. '35, Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, August C. Helmhelz '36, Germain G. Glidden '36, Alden Bryan '35, Marvin P. Richmond '34, Willard E. Ingalls, Jr. '35, and Sumner Redman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Tennis Meet Today | 5/18/1934 | See Source »

Guild. The Newspaper Guild started last August in Manhattan. With the Newspaper Code about to be formulated, Scripps-Howard Columnist Heywood

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newshawks v. Hearst | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...hard fought match, which was not decided until the final doubles, the Harvard Varsity tennis team repulsed a marauding squad of Dartmouth Indians Saturday afternoon by the close score of 5-4. It was not until August C. Helmholz '36 and Frank W. Jones '35 stepped up, with the singles divided at three all and the first two doubles matches split, and trimmed Mook and Hall, 6-3, 6-3 in the third doubles that the afternoon was decided in favor of the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor Week-end Sports | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

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