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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result is 100 per cent-100 per cent!" exulted Pravda. "What election in what country for what candidate has given a 100-per cent response?" Soviet officials explained that in Russia, under Stalin's new "Most Democratic Constitution in the World," the urge to vote is so strong that at thousands of polling places crowds of voters waited through much of the previous night for the polls to open. These earliest comers were reported in most cases to be elderly men and women. Vigorous young Russians, confident of being able to shove through the crowds, mostly arrived "late"-that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 100% Victory | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Student Employment Office, under the direction of Russell T. Sharpe '28, 1148 applicants were placed during the past year, a 6.5 per cent gain over 1935-36. Earnings of those placed through the office dropped slightly to just under $200,000, but Plimpton attributed the decline to changes in bookkeeping methods, since total undergraduate earnings reached $278,-088.98 to top the corresponding figure the previous year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Jobs Obtained Through the Employment Office, Says Report | 12/16/1937 | See Source »

Yesterday he got another letter. This time it was from the post office asking him to bring over five cents for special handling, along with one cent postage due, for a letter addressed to him from Wayland. He had put a two cent stamp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 12/14/1937 | See Source »

...diameters can be magnified dimly by the mammoth machine, but its chief value lies in its 4000 to 6000 diameter work. Here it has picked up flecks of gold so small that 40 billion of them would be worth only one cent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Graton Discusses His Giant, Newly Perfected One Ton Microscope | 12/4/1937 | See Source »

...that a local organizer has succeeded in unionizing allegedly ninety percent of all dining hall workers, the University is confronted directly with the question of whether or not to recognize the union as the sole bargaining power of a hundred per cent of these employees. By a recently enacted state law, not yet tested, Harvard might be compelled to recognize the union as the only bargaining agent of union members working in the University, which include supposedly nine-tenths of the total number employed. From the fact that officials are still negotiating with the local organizer, it can be rightly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNION IN HARVARD | 12/3/1937 | See Source »

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