Word: c
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When President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40) was thumbing his nose at the world's great powers by expropriating their oil holdings in Mexico, he scared the striped pants off U.S. diplomats, who feared that he was setting up a Communist-type state right next door. At one swoop in 1938, Cárdenas took over 395,000 acres of henequen (fiber) land in Yucatán and turned it into a vast government collective farm. It was the nearest thing to a Soviet-style Sovkhoz (state farm) outside the U.S.S.R. Cardenas called it the Gran...
...three educators disagreed with Courtney C. Smith '38, President of Swarthmore College and nominee for overseer, who said in a speech Monday that social pressure rather than academic standards too often determine what college a student will attend. "It's foolish to generalize about why somebody prefers one college to another," said Bender. "These are too many variables. Social pressure probably greatly affects only a very small minority...
...C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History has been elected to life membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Marc Connelly, president of the institute, announced Monday...
...other six named by the Junior Chamber of Commerce were: Robert C. Bergenheim, Curt Gowdy, Endicott Penbody '42, Everett P. Pope, John F. Rockott, Jr., and Dr. William B. Schwartz...
Furthermore as to the best of my knowledge the Young Democrats have never been engaged in the film business. John C Eidridge, '55, Vice-President, HYRC