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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HERE are three books on war that are eminently worth reading. They are varied in tone and content but the philosophy behind them all is the same. They are written (respectively) by a famous English whimsicalist, creator of "Winnie the Pooh"; a not so well-known Irish satirist; and a senior at Princeton University who is National Commander of the Veterans of Future Wars. The latter two are extremely witty and amusing, the first is inexorably logical and serious...

Author: By A. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 6/5/1936 | See Source »

...exalt the Jewish reputation and know what it is all about? . . . This matter of Lehman seems to be only a pawn in the game of politics to you two who are trying to hold on to your fine jobs." Three days later Tammany and Tam-manyman Cohalan were again content, the Republicans were chortling with unsuppressed glee, and Roosevelt & Co. was putting its collective head together to dig up another "pawn." To dumbfounded newshawks in Albany Governor Lehman had just handed a mimeographed statement: "I feel that the time has come when I may ask release from the cares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Right Arm Off | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Failure to come through as advertised in the trial heats coupled with Green's leg injury caused the track team to be content with a second place in the I.C.A.A.A.A. Meet in Philadelphia Saturday, and they were lucky to get that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON RELEGATED TO SECOND PLACE IN I.C.4A.'S | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...that any Methodist should know; an Episcopalian should be able to answer the hard questions he will be asked before ordination to the diaconate; a Presbyterian can tell the difference between the Westminster and Auburn Confessions. The average member of Union's graduating class will be temporarily content with a B. D. degree, expect to present himself to a church and be ordained within a year, accept a modest job which his field work has probably already lined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battle of Columbus (Concl.) | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/20/1936 | See Source »

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