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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nuclear organization of their drive to help refugees of the student and professional class, 35 College and Graduate School men formed five committees at a meeting in Lowell House Common Room last night...
Tonight in the Dudley House Common Room at 7:30 o'clock Eliot House meets the Commuters in the fourth week of the inter-House debating season. The subject is: "Reseolved, That Harvard should place more emphasis on the Classics and less on the Social Sciences...
...have resources sufficient to expend equally large sums in advertising. . . . In the automobile financing field vast sums are spent by manufacturers to advertise the services of particular finance companies. . . . Like conditions obtain in the advertising of commodities, vast sums being expended to advertise particular brands of such common products as gasoline and milk. In the oil industry to take one example, refiners are deprived of their market because of the belief induced by great expenditure that good gasoline is sold only under particular trade names. . . ." Admitting that present anti-trust laws are inadequate to limit advertising. Trust Buster Arnold nevertheless...
...politics have always played a big part in Nobel Prize selections. In politically-conscious Europe Pearl Buck is famed for The Good Earth, for her pungent, telling attacks on dictators, for her tributes to the common people of China. In a broadcast to Sweden, modest Pearl Buck said simply that the award should have gone to Theodore Dreiser...
...Tropic of Cancer he deals primarily with matters which, while not exactly left out of modern books, are usually slurred over, and in his pages four-letter words are as common as the things they stand for. Narrator of the story is a penniless, sex-obsessed writer living in Paris, who encounters an extraordinary crew of neurotics, prostitutes, perverts, poets and painters, with many of whom he has sexual relations, meanwhile borrowing money, cadging drinks and exploding into hysterical laughter at the misfortunes of his friends. Miller's prose, with its queer combination of unrestrained rhetoric and dry Yankee...