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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cameron Forbes '92 will speak to the Freshmen class on "Spain Under General France" in the Upper Common Room of the Union at 7:30 O'clock tonight. Mr. Forbes, who has been United States Ambassador to Japan, and Governor-General of the Philippines, was a recent visitor in Spain as the guest of General Franco...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forbes Speaks | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...Maxwell Andrews considered it necessary to issue the following communique: "I notice from some press reports that there is a tendency to indicate that the Army GHQ Air Force is planning to fight a war by itself. I would like to correct that impression. . . We must realize that in common with the mobilization of the air force in this area, the ground arms of the Army would also be assembling, prepared to take the major role in repelling the actual landing forces. ... I want to ask that you do not accuse us of trying to win a war alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Soldiers in the Sky | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...airlines, particularly in independently developing expensive experimental planes, then all investing in a standard plane-first the DC-2, then the DC-3. The good idea: that U. S. airlines should use the collective knowledge of their engineers, pilots, technical and traffic advisers, eliminate competitive waste by financing a common plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: DC-4 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud begins with Freud's amiable observations on the common phenomenon of forgetting. Aside from its jawbreaking title (The Psychopathology of Everyday Life) this is homely and domestic stuff, telling about people who forget their keys, lock themselves out of rooms which-unconsciously -they do not want to enter, forget the names of people they pretend to like, and forget engagements they do not want to keep. In this universal comedy of psychological errors, typesetters drop words from headlines, proofreaders overlook absurd mistakes, genteel ladies make slips of the tongue which transform innocent sentences into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Observer | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...money turned over by the House Committees to the University will be held at Lehman Hall, and the House may spend it, again "for educational purposes," only, but apparently dances are not in this category. Such things as magazines for the common room, phonograph records, books for the libraries and the like are acceptable, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSES MUST GIVE ALL PROFITS TO THE BURSAR | 5/20/1938 | See Source »

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