Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sketch in which a Jeeter Lesterish farmer suffers an AAA "professor" to destroy his wheat and cotton but shoots the professor when the latter wants to kill his mule...
...course there would be someone like Representative Hamilton Fish--himself a Harvard man--to find fault with her recognition of a Bolshevik son. Mr. Fish insists that the committee which presented the portrait "was intellectuals and others who are trying to undermine and destroy our present form of government." How, exactly, does such a charge, if true, concern Harvard's acceptance? Her interest is in John Reed, not the committee, and this would be true if the latter had been composed of bond salesmen. We would suggest to Mr. Fish that the only legitimate point of attack in the whole...
Stars. Major cause of Hollywood's fear of color is the fact that if it supersedes black & white film, it will destroy the value of a star whose pigmentation is unsuitable, as sound destroyed the value of squeaky or hopelessly uncultivated ones in 1927. Color experts think that blondes with clearly chiseled features have the best chance. The star of Becky Sharp was chosen because, if the picture does produce a Hollywood upheaval, she is the actress surest to survive...
...writing to make a request of you and also to ask a question. My request is for a copy of any Editorial that the CRIMSON may publish on the subject. Secondly: Is there not at least one student in Harvard who will resent this act sufficiently to destroy the picture even with the certainly that he will be called a vandal? I am the inheritor of one of the so-called "Liberty Cups," given as a badge of honor to the Members of the Boston Tea Party who destroyed the British tea in Boston Harbor. The British denounced that incident...
British diplomacy's most potent role during the War was in rationalizing the obviously illegal practices of the Allied blockade of Germany. The Allied fleets destroyed U. S.. trade with the Central Powers, then with neutrals, abrogated the Declaration of London bit by bit, in flagrant violation of international law. In reply to U. S. protests Britain insisted that all these measures were "essential to our existence." Writer Millis: "As long as that plea carried weight with our statesmen and the corresponding plea from Germany did not, the U. S. was unavoidably a silent partner of the Entente...