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Howe-is a short, sharp, outspoken Yankee who looks a good deal like an Englishman himself. While he was editing Living Age, he became convinced that British-American antagonism was growing. War debts, the Ottawa agreement, books like Frank Hanighen's The Secret War for Oil strengthened his conviction. In his book, the U. S. teems with British propagandists and secret agents; the English Speaking Union manipulates U. S. public opinion; and, according to Sir Wilmot Lewis, Mr. Howe sees an Englishman under every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Howe y. England | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Approximately 60 former Puritans attended the Winthrop House Annual Alumni Dinner given last night. William F. Loomis '36 gave a lecture and showed movies of the work of the British-American Expedition which successfully climbed Mt. Nanda Devi, the highest peak ever ascended by man. Loomis was a member of the expedition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/19/1937 | See Source »

...work of the British-American party which last summer reached the peak of Nanda Devi, the highest summit ever climbed by man, will be outlined. The mountain, 25,660 feet in elevation, is located at the source of the Ganges river, and is considered by Hindus a "sacred mountain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARTHUR EMMONS WILL TALK ON NANDA DEVI | 3/11/1937 | See Source »

...gold countries, now faced with "unfair" competition, also to give up the gold standard. The longer the list of paper countries the more likely that the remaining gold countries will be forced off gold. World-wide depreciation in terms of old gold parties has been the inevitable result of British-American leadership in these matters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harris Urges Benefits of Money Depreciation In New Volume Published by University Press | 10/22/1936 | See Source »

...title of his first lecture, to be delivered on Wednesday, January 22, will be "The Aftermath of the Civil War"; the second on the following day is titled "Burial of the Hatchet, 1898 - 1901"; the last will be given on Friday, January 24, on the subject "British-American Policies in the Far East Since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. P. BAXTER WILL GO TO ENGLAND TO GIVE THREE TALKS | 12/18/1935 | See Source »

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