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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honor satisfied and the Government preserved, the National Assembly succeeded in drafting the expropriation bill the next day. Moderate President Alcala Zamora had his way. Grandees were cheered to discover that, as drafted last week, the expropriation law does not provide for confiscation of estates, provides that payment must be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The President: I Resign! | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

The Copley Company has opened its season with "Tonight Or Never", a play by Lili Hatvany, which stood the acid test of Broadway for many months. It needs only half an eye to discover the causes for whatever success has accrued to the play. The Boston presentation is characterized by...

Author: By B. Oc., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/10/1931 | See Source »

Happening on a discussion of furniture the Vagabond read further, only to discover that his one Chippendale was not an original but only a distorted image of the Idea of Chippendale. It was too much. The doctrine was dangerous; a threat to every property owner in the state, and a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/8/1931 | See Source »

Once again the fellow sauntered in and out of the old dormitories in the Yard and sighed for days of other years when the Yard was populated by the knowing ones. Stoughton, Hollis, approved by Copey, his thoughts wandered and he glanced at the printed lists which advertise the names...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/26/1931 | See Source »

Beacon Hill felt a thrill of horror creep up its asphalt as it became conscious of the most recent number of the New Yorker. Even the Back Bay may have quaked a little to discover its secretary of the navy quoted as writing to the president of Harvard College; "Dear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters That Might Have Been | 9/25/1931 | See Source »

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