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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National Affairs (TIME, April 15, p. 20) concerning Oldster Hull-"Mr. Hull represents probably the last chance for U. S.citizens who want to vote for a man born in a log cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Buses will leave Wellesley and Harvard tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock for the International Students' outing. Students are asked to bring at least two picnic lunches to the affair, which will be held near the Tech cabin on Lake Massapoag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: International Group to Picnic. | 5/4/1940 | See Source »

Dear - I cried so hard when I reached my cabin-the flowers, the hams, the turkeys, the cables made me cry more. I hated to leave America as never before. Though, always it has been a wrench. It is hard to turn one's back on light and wealth and lavish welcome and illusion, only to meet again with the dark struggle, poverty, gloom, dread and want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...anything unPresidential about Mr. Hull except perhaps his age (oldest President: William Henry Harrison, 68, who died one month after inauguration). Mr. Hull represents probably the last chance for U. S. citizens who want to vote for a man born in a log cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men A-Plenty | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...composer can attain an authentically U. S. symphonic style, a spare, gangling, twangy Oklahoman named Roy Harris may well be the man. Born in a log cabin, Roy Harris is as independent as a Panhandle cowhand, as dryly American as the Dust Bowl where he spent his early childhood. When, in 1926, he ap peared in Eastern concert halls with an awkward, homemade symphonic piece un der his arm, critics took one look and de cided that here was music's own Joaquin Miller. Sent to Paris to study with famed Teacher Nadia Boulanger (TIME, Feb.28, 1938), Composer Harris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Home-Grown Composer | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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