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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profitable paper, and John Walter, fifth generation descendant of the Times's founder. Shareholder Astor of the English branch of the Astor family, bought the holdings of the late Viscount Northcliffe 15 years ago. To insure that no unworthy shall gain control of the Times, no transfer of common shares by a living holder to anyone except Owners Astor and Walter can be made without approval from an austere committee whose members are the Speaker of the House of Commons, Governor of the Bank of England, Warden of All Souls, Oxford, Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice, Headmaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Times's Change | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Education with an accent on research was introduced into this country when President Eliot brought back this idea from Germany, stated Albert Bushnell Hart '80, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, last night at the Union Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HART REMINISCES OVER COLLEGE LIFE IN 1870 | 12/11/1937 | See Source »

Last year the reading had to be postponed until February, and was held in the President's house, but this year it is planned to take place in the Upper Common Room of the Union, as usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Copey's Christmas Reading Will Come on December 15 | 12/9/1937 | See Source »

Results of an essay contest sponsored by the Classical Club were anounced last night at a meeting in the Junior common room of Kirkland House when the winners, Louis J. Dunham, Jr. '39 and Richard B. Finn, '39, read their prize-winning papers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunham, Finn Win Classical Club's Annual Essay Contest | 12/8/1937 | See Source »

That "the letter of Law is not always the Spirit of Justice" is the conclusion of "The Village Maiden and the Three Red Boys" where the offended father's attempt to profit in a common-sense way from his daughter's misfortune is rudely rejected by Soviet justice. "Leningrad's Lucky House" shows an all-wise government taking control of a poor tenement's winning in a state lottery and administering it to everyone's disappointment and everyone's ultimate benefit. Mr. Duranty has loss success when he tackles the subject of the comparative success of Christianity and Communism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 12/7/1937 | See Source »

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