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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pamphlets were passed out before the discussion began, outlining a seven point program to keep the United States out of war. Both speakers first urged all pacifists to action now before it is too late and then they opened the meeting to informal discussion...
Yesterday Mr. Conant began his speech by asking the question whether a "free and classless society" was a valid ideal or an illusion. Thereupon he set out to prove that the former was true. His argument might be staked out in two claims: first, that the essence of a classless society is a high degree of "social mobility"--or equality of opportunity for each member of a new generation regardless of his inherited social position; and second, that this social mobility can be largely obtained by, education. After hearing him out, most of his listeners must have been unconvinced...
Last week, for a second time since September1, U. S. carpet prices were raised-a total increase of 10% since World War II began. Big carpet makers, like Bigelow-Sanford, Mohawk Carpet Mills, Alexander Smith Co., wondered where next year's carpet wool was coming from. War and embargoes had wiped out some 75% of the carpet wool supply. Meanwhile, after a deficit year in 1938 (Bigelow-Sanford lost $1,491,000, Mohawk $1,486,000), they stood to make a handsome inventory profit...
...young manhood, no prophet could have predicted Bolívar's future. Heir to one of the biggest fortunes in Venezuela (his childhood income was around $20,000 a year), this slight, hot-tempered, handsome young Creole aristocrat was the pampered darling of his family, at 17 began his conquests in the salons and boudoirs of Europe (Queen Maria Luisa of Spain was rumored one of the many). Then suddenly he left on a walking tour with his old tutor, a votary of Rousseau and the Greeks. Three months later, in Italy, Bolívar made his melodramatic...
...when he was away his generals began plotting to junk the Constitution. Five years after military victory the new republics were chasing after dictators faster than Bolívar could run. When Colombia started a counterrevolution and his beloved General Sucre was assassinated Bolívar wrote: "All who have served the Revolution have ploughed...