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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expert on European history, Brinton is the author of several books, including "The Anatomy of Revolution," published last year. After graduating summa cum laude he took his Ph.D. at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship and then returned to take a post in the History department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRANE BRINTON '19 TO BE NEW SENIOR FELLOW | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

Richard H. Flnn, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., who received an A.B. magna cum laude last June and who was the Latin crator at Commencement exercises, was awarded the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prizes Are Awarded to Five Outstanding Law School Men | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

...defeated only once (by Max Schmeling), has knocked out all but seven of his opponents, including five onetime world's champions (Braddock, Camera, Baer, Sharkey, Schmeling), has successfully defended his title eight times in the past two years. This record gives Joe Louis a fisticuffer's summa cum laude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Summa cum Laude | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Britain's Magna Charta gave the power and prerogatives to the barons, who have held them ever since-the backdoor of the peerage-cum-charmed political circle always being carefully left wide open to "commoners" who have the dough and can read without moving their lips, also, for safety's sake, to an occasional pale pink radical with an orthodox Imperial slant to his ideas. The country's masses, politically ignorant and acquiescent because they are continually mesmerized by a puppet press masquerading as democratic, have yet to realize that they are on the outside looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

China Boy and I've Found A New Baby (Bud Freeman and the Summa Cum Laude; Bluebird). First recordings of Manhattan's newest and most exciting hot band, a cooperative group consisting of Freeman (saxophone), Peewee Russell (clarinet), Eddie Condon (guitar) and five others who permanently dance-banded together after being assembled to play for the Class of 1929's reunion in Princeton last June. Sound as well as sassy, the Summa Cum Laudes are all musical veterans, and their China Boy-classic touchstone for rhythm bands-is fit to file alongside the historic Whiteman versions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: August Records, Aug. 7, 193 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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