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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profitably be eliminated. A few members of the present conference offer the very sensible suggestion that the pruning be placed in the hands of leading educators in each community. Such men, cognizant of both the needed retrenchments and the really indispensable expenditures, can best reach a balance in the dilemma against which our scholastic bureaucracy and befuddled business men committees have struggled in vain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLASHING BY EXPERTS | 3/25/1933 | See Source »

SHAW (Bernard) The Doctor's Dilemma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODERN BOOKS WHICH ARE DUE FOR A RISE | 12/7/1932 | See Source »

SHAW (Bernard) Doctor's Dilemma, etc. Blank end paper missing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODERN BOOKS WHICH ARE DUE FOR A RISE | 12/7/1932 | See Source »

...this dilemma the CRIMSON, with becoming modesty, wishes to offer a brief proposal, which will solve two problems at a blow. Let Great Britain, in return for a reduction in her debt to this country, cede one of those barren islands in the North Atlantic, which it has been asserted, have no value except in the unlikely event of war. Let the government turn the island over to Mrs. Peabody, and guarantee to keep it barren. There Mrs. Peabody, and for good measure the lame duck dries in Congress, can maintain unhampered their ideal regime, the Sahara of the Boozart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODEST PROPOSAL | 12/6/1932 | See Source »

...after, a recount of the votes for Fredric March showed that his performance in Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde had beaten Wallace Beery's in The Champ by only one vote. Academy rule says the margin must be two or more. The dilemma was solved by ordering another gold statuet for Wallace Beery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Academy Awards | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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