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Returning from his eight week scientific mission to England, President James Bryant Conant '14 will arrive in New York at 10 o'clock this morning via transatlantic Clipper, the United Press reported last night...
First to raise an alarm was Harvard's President James Bryant Conant. An ardent champion of the draft law, he nevertheless warned U.S. officials last year that efficient national defense required that future scientists and engineers be allowed to finish their training. Two months ago a National Committee on Education and Defense called a conference of bigwig educators in Washington, heard an almost unanimous plea that Congress continue the system of deferring conscription of students until the end of their school year...
...Expediter William Averell Harriman, the sobersided multimillionaire who once bred the finest U. S. polo ponies (he was rated at eight goals). He also sent a group of scientists to study everything from the increase in rats to the social effects of underground life (last fortnight Harvard President James Bryant Conant arrived in London as a sort of Scientific Ambassador...
...plane with him stepped chubby Braintruster Benjamin V. Cohen, the Embassy's new legal adviser, and Chemist James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard, in England on a special mission (to study scientific war methods...
...England he sent a research chemist, Harvard's bespectacled young president, James Bryant Conant, as head of a mission to gather scientific data on England's machinery of war. Back from England came trusted Harry Hopkins. At LaGuardia Field, he told reporters: "I don't think Hitler can lick these people. I think he's up against as tough a crowd as there is, and I think they have the military stuff, with the help we can give them, to win. It won't be a stalemated war." Then he sped to the Hotel Roosevelt...