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...short time ago New Mexico seemed overwhelmingly pro-New Deal and pro-Roosevelt, but people are saying that the President has permitted his personal pro-Ally bias to betray our nation into what is already almost a state of war. Today it seems likely that Roosevelt would be defeated in this State solely on the basis of his recent conduct of international affairs. Recently people are saying that Wendell Willkie is the one possible savior in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1940 | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...used. Yard cops will not be stationed at cram parlor doors to seize the Bursar's cards of men who, from choice or apparent necessity, continue to violate the will of the Faculty. It is very likely that tell-tale glibness and vague answers to specific questions will betray students who have not done their own work. This method of detection has already proved successful in History 1, and it is probable that the previous penalty of a cut in the paper's grade will be stiffened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCIPLINARY ACTION | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

...paintings which he sees. Honest performance and an intelligent approach have become rare birds these days, but they can be found in the work of Hollister. He is a fine draftsman, and he succeeds in rising above the stage of self-consciousness. The paintings of Elliott Richardson '41 betray a certain naivete of approach, but they are straightforward and clear. Nothing artificial, nothing that might protrude as a deliberate attempt to gain an effect is present. His handling of the water in the foreground of his large oil is to be admired. Fetcher's watercolors, solid but unpretentious, together with...

Author: By John Wliner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...pound, of milk 1? a quart and promised a bonus of $40 for every idle German acre brought under cultivation. Goring insisted that next year's root crop yield must be 10% to 15% over last year's, which was the highest ever. "Do not betray the faith we have in you, German farmer, to provide food for us," appealed the Field Marshal. "I give you a slogan for the production battle of 1940: Now more than ever! Ours is victory! Hail our Führer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Socialist and Nationalist | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Professor Merk reports that the notes contain lecture material four or five years old and that they omit important current lectures and reading. "They are filled with errors of fact and generalization which would likely betray any student's answers based on them," Merk said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merk Flays Cram Notes in History 5 | 1/26/1940 | See Source »

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