Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very significant that a large peace meeting and a large Army gathering should take place here each spring. It shows first that the University offers both sides of the question. Beyond this, however, it means that the students themselves are not quite sure of the answer to the question of preparedness for war or militant pacifism. Perhaps it is worthy of note that many of the students who will drill today were leaders in the peace movement a few weeks ago. A Freshman Military Science officer, for example, is vice-president of the Peace Society...
Next? Welles is full of ideas for next season's Mercury, though there are no announced plans beyond Five Kings, which will be tried out this summer and produced for the Mercury by the Theatre Guild in the fall. Five Kings will be a double-header performance telescoping Shakespeare's chronicle plays: the end of Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I & II, Henry V, Henry VI, Parts I, II, III, and Richard III. Welles will direct the whole enterprise, and play Falstaff. The Theatre Guild will supply part of the backing and the fat pickings...
...catalogue the disagreements. Last week the four businessmen and three educators sat down before an audience of professors and students in Columbia's Milbank Chapel to thresh the matter out. Flanking Dean Russell, they sprawled in their chairs, wriggled and squirmed, stared at the ceiling, never got beyond Subdivision 3 of Topic I. Crux of the argument was not education but the "private enterprise system" v. "planned economy." At the end of a full day's talk the businessmen and schoolmen were farther apart than ever. Messrs. Houston & Co. accused the educators of threatening U. S. Liberties. Confessed...
...Morgan-Partner Bartow with the whole miserable tale and a request for $280,000 more. Banker Bartow went to Lawyer John W. Davis, who forbade any financial assistance as improper. Bartow then motored out to Long Island to see J. P. Morgan himself. "Mr. Morgan was shocked beyond measure. He gave me his judgment that there was no course for us to follow except to abide by the advice we had received...
...many respects the picture is timely. Coming when Hollywood is being less and less favorably compared to Elstree and Joinville, it demonstrated beyond refusal the potential superiority of American studios...