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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think there's a ghost of a chance of Ireland's fighting for anyone if she can get out of it"; Nicaragua's burly President-Dictator Anastasio Somoza; San Francisco's Mayor Angelo J. Rossi; Wooster, Ohio's Mrs. Otelia Compton, 80, whom Mrs. James Rooseveltt decorated as "American Mother of 1939" (her children: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Dr. Karl T. Compton; Washington Attorney Wilson M. Compton; University of Chicago Physics Professor Dr. Arthur Compton; Mrs. Herbert Compton Rice, principal of Christian College in Allahabad, India). Grover Aloysius Whalen absented himself long enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

That made Institutions the leader of the Industry and Finance section. And that made President Compton of M. I. T., chairman of Institutions, the recipient of the Campaign's first prize, a thirty inch high Orphan Annie doll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Gifts Total $53,000 in Community Fund Campaign | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Introduced by Karl T. Compton, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the speakers gave their opinions on what the problem before this country is and the best solution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten Supporters Defend Intellectual Freedom at Lincoln Day Gathering | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Presiding at the Harvard meeting will be Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of M. I. T. Others headlined on the program are Dr. Mildred H. McAfee, president of Wellesley, and Zechariah Chafee, Jr., Langdell Professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nazi Article Contrasting Jewish and Aryan Physics Proved Starting Point of Lincoln's Day Democracy Demonstration | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

Plans for the meeting were formulated by a group of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, and Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Technology, will preside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mass Meeting on Intellectual Liberty, Democracy Slated for Lincoln's Day | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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