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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crosley: station wagon (called "errand-wagon") at $420, "Parkway delivery" at $350. Claims: 50 miles per gallon, cent-a-mile operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trucks, A.D. 1940 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Although impartial observers claim that over ninety per cent of contemporary newspaper publishers never went out for the Crimson, the fact remains that no less a man than James Bryant Conant (Crimson '13) has been heard to say that--for a certain type of man--the Crimson is more valuable than any regular curricular work. It is unfortunate that Harvard's president never went on to specify what certain type of man he was referring to; however, after delving deep into the depths of its morgue the Crimson board finally is able to clarify this statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TONIGHT AT SEVEN-THIRTY | 11/14/1939 | See Source »

Even if England and France were being defeated, 78 per cent of Harvard's undergraduates would oppose United States' participation in the European war, it was revealed yesterday afternoon at a Student Union peace rally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Shows That Three-Quarters of Undergraduates Support Isolationism | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

...audience of 300 in the New Lecture Hall, Bert Witt, Secretary of the American Student Union, read the results of the recent H.S.U. poll of 1800 undergraduates, 95 per cent of whom are against immediate American entry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Shows That Three-Quarters of Undergraduates Support Isolationism | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

...value of Jewish property and securities, the sums realized would probably have totaled the $400,000,000 originally demanded. Jews were informed last week that they must now "make up the difference for lost values," and Count Krosigk prepared to strip the Jewish community of about five per cent more of its wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Second Squeeze | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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