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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The fact that the University would act as a medium between the donor and the selected student does not imply credence in the political beliefs of Germany any more than the granting of a Harvard scholarship to a resident of Alabama implies support of Negro suppression in southern United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/25/1936 | See Source »

The whip that cracks loudest and most potently in Russia is the Communist Party newsorgan Pravda ("Truth"), in which Joseph Stalin's lightest whims and heaviest commands, usually unsigned, often appear first. Last week that prominent Old Bolshevik, the editor of the Soviet Government newsorgan Izvestia ("News"), famed Nicolai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Crack! Crack! | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

In The Prisoner of Shark Island, Dr. Mudd is Warner Baxter, rolling his eyes with suitable agony at the world's injustice. Remembering the success of Les Misèrables, in which Charles Laughton gave a memorable interpretation of a tireless detective, Producer Zanuck inserted a similar character to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Lionel Barrymore as the small town editor and head of a normal family is at least as good as he has been in character parts and his supporting cast is equally fine. Wallace Berry is the delightful, warm hearted semi - alcoholic who has asked Aline MacMahon to marry him for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/21/1936 | See Source »

By achieving its purpose of relieving distress among the unemployed by giving them useful work of a public character to do, the Works Progress Administration is a definite success, stated Victor Ridder, director of the W. P. A.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ridder Claims Boon-doggling Misused When Applied to WPA Administration | 2/19/1936 | See Source »

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