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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Friday the Hygiene Building witnessed an influx of famous medical men meeting to discuss the Grant Study. This psychological, biological, and sociological survey has been in progress for over a year in an attempt to discover the motivating forces of a cross-section of normal college students. Although the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRANT STUDY | 11/16/1939 | See Source »

"Why must there be an investigation of rights and liberties guaranteed by three hundred years of liberal traditions? . . . We fear that any committee to 'explore' the basis of Harvard's policy will only discover new technicalities with which to curtail our liberties.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporation Withholds Its Permission for Browder Speech, Answers Tenure Critics | 11/14/1939 | See Source »

If the news correspondents wished to see action, the one salient to which they should have been sent was Forbach, the French industrial town (pop. 11,491) which is a small counterpart of Germany's Saarbrücken, five miles northeast. Forbach is outside the Maginot Line and its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Gamelin Speaks | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Had the Mahatma protested less, the art world would almost certainly have accepted him sooner. Not until 1932 did dealers and critics pierce his smoke screen of self-publicity, discover that his naive, whimsical paintings were worthy of serious attention. For a song, dealers then snapped up his lush romantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manhattan Mahatma | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

For the Majority. Parkes's closely thought-out proposals rest on this conclusion and on the equally demonstrable one that "the kind of system which prevailed in America before 1929 is unworkable. . . ." His alternative is laissez-faire, the principle of the free, competitive market under the law that Jefferson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Constructive Anatomy | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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