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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That undergraduates are "uninformed and greatly confused" about international problems is the accusation made by the editors of the Daily Californian. The current debate over the complicated Neutrality Act would rend to emphasize this failing. To pierce this alleged fog of undergraduate confusion is the avowed purpose of the following paragraphs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FACTS OF THE MATTER | 9/28/1939 | See Source »

Stating that the majority of the magazine's readers support its stand on the Russian-German alliance, the editorial puts Hicks in the ranks of "people who have incompletely grasped the implications of their philosophy or are susceptible to the current of demoralization with which the enemy seeks to divide progressives in crucial periods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communist Paper Says Quitting of Hicks Is Ironical | 9/27/1939 | See Source »

Irwin Ross's leading article in the current number of the "Harvard Progressive" is one of greatest interest to the Harvard community. Discussing "The Strange Case of the Assistant Professors," he gives vigorous expression to a student view of the vital changes being wrought by the administrative appointment policy. This view, which has found similar expression in other student publications, can hardly be better put than in Mr. Ross's own words: "Undergraduates are naturally concerned with the threat to Harvard education, rather than with the more remote issues of faculty security and academic democracy. We are disturbed...

Author: By Professor OF Mathematics and M. H. Stone, S | Title: On The Rack | 9/27/1939 | See Source »

...Britons' current war song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Marching Song | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...descendants of the founders sold out for $7,000,000. The deal was financed by the sale to the public of $3,550,000 of 6% first mortgage bonds, $2,643,900 of 7% cumulative preferred stock, 100,000 shares of no par common (current price $3.75). Although funded debt has been reduced by almost one half, Marion owes $1,619,388 back dividends on her outstanding preferred. Two years ago net sales of $6,174,822 gave the firm a $338,191 net profit; last year the company was back in the red, almost $500,000; last week Marion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Shovels Up | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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